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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2009
Applicants:
Masahiro Matsushita, Yokohama, JP;
Hirotaka Shiiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Hidetomo Sohma, Yokohama, JP;
Koichi Magai, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Masahiro Matsushita, Yokohama, JP;
Hirotaka Shiiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Hidetomo Sohma, Yokohama, JP;
Koichi Magai, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing apparatus executes smoothing processing (reduction conversion) of an input image to acquire a smoothed image (reduced image), acquires a normalization parameter for normalization from the smoothed image, and normalizes pixel values of the input image based on the normalization parameter.