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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2001
Applicant:
Tsutomu Kawano, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tsutomu Kawano, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing apparatus provided with an object region extracting means that detects an amount of radiation energy transmitted through an object and extracts an object region on which an object is radiographed for a radiation image corresponding to the amount of the detection and with a contour recognizing means that recognizes a contour based on the object region extracted by the object region extracting means wherein the contour recognizing means extracts a feature amount.