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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2012
Applicant:
Masakazu Ohira, Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Masakazu Ohira, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 1/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 5/005 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10008 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30176 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes: a line noise detection section for detecting line noise pixels included in input image data; a segmentation process section for determining a pixel in a text region; and a line noise removal process section for (i) determining a replacement-target line noise pixel by excepting, from the line noise pixels, the pixel in the text region and a pixel within a first distance from the pixel in the text region and (ii) replacing the replacement-target line noise pixel with another pixel other than the line noise pixels, which another pixel is included in the input image data.