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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2015
Applicant:
Pfu Limited, Kahoku-shi, Ishikawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
PFU Limited, Kahoku-shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/60 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/387 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00748 (2013.01); H04N 1/3872 (2013.01); H04N 1/60 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0081 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a color component image generator for extracting a particular color component from an input image to generate a color component image, an expanded-color-component image generator for expanding particular pixels in the color component image to generate an expanded-color-component image, an edge pixel extractor for extracting edge pixels from the expanded-color-component image, and a document region detector for detecting a document region from the edge pixels.