Image analysis – Pattern recognition – Feature extraction
Patent
1995-02-21
1996-11-05
Mancuso, Joseph
Image analysis
Pattern recognition
Feature extraction
382205, G06K 948
Patent
active
055726038
ABSTRACT:
An image processing device in which each pixel data of a gray-scale image, which data is obtained by scanning an original, is converted into a binary image-signal. The device comprises a matrix preparing unit for preparing a 3*3 pixel matrix comprising a focus pixel positioned in the center of the matrix and bordering pixels surrounding the focus pixel, a determining unit for determining whether or not the focus pixel is an edge pixel by comparing an intensity of the focus pixel with intensities of each of three bordering pixels consecutively arranged around the focus pixel, the comparison using the focus-pixel signal and bordering pixel-signals supplied by the matrix preparing unit, and the determining unit also being for outputting a control signal indicating the determined condition of the focus pixel. The device further comprises an enhancing unit for enhancing the focus pixel signal, and a selecting unit for selecting a pixel signal, in accordance with the control signal, from among the focus pixel signal and the enhanced pixel signal.
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Mancuso Joseph
Ricoh & Company, Ltd.
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