Image processing method and apparatus

Details Image processing method and apparatus Image processing method and apparatus

1992-07-10

1996-10-01

Ip, Paul

Facsimile and static presentation processing

Facsimile

Specific signal processing circuitry

358433, 382199, G06K 900

Patent

active

055615341

ABSTRACT:
This invention provides an image processing method and apparatus. According to this invention, contour line data when viewed from a the main scan direction are generated on the basis of the connection relationship between a target line element and adjacent line elements before and after the target line element in one direction of continuous line elements, and a direction of an area to be painted out. It is then set that a pixel position of an odd-numbered contour encountered in a scan operation in the main scan direction indicates a forward rotation position of the area, and that an adjacent pixel position in the main scan direction of an even-numbered contour encountered in the scan operation indicates a reverse rotation position of the area. Thereafter, it is discriminated that a portion between an odd-numbered contour position, when viewed from a scan direction on each scan line, to a pixel position immediately before an even-numbered contour position is a portion inside the area of a closed figure, and remaining portions are outside the area of the closed figure.

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