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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:
Oct. 05, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 04, 2005
Applicants:
Atsushi Tanabe, Fukuoka, JP;
Shozo Fukuda, Fukuoka, JP;
Hirotake Nakayama, Fukuoka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image generation method for distinguishing a shape of a component includes: a color image taking step (S) of taking an image of the component in color, and a conversion step (S, S) of converting the color image taken in the color image taking step (S) into a black-and-white grayscale image in which the shape of the component is shown in black-and-white grayscale.