Image analysis – Image enhancement or restoration – Edge or contour enhancement
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-06
2005-12-06
Patel, Kanjibhai (Department: 2625)
Image analysis
Image enhancement or restoration
Edge or contour enhancement
C348S207990
Reexamination Certificate
active
06973220
ABSTRACT:
An image processing method includes the steps of obtaining an image in which a first area including a first image and a second area including a second image are discriminated with each other, and a control step for performing a blur control to a second image using a filter to obtain a blur-controlled second image while accompanying processing for reducing an influence of the first area at a boundary between the first area and the second area and therearound when the blur control is performed to the second image.
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Horie Daisaku
Sakurai Mikio
Minolta Co. , Ltd.
Patel Kanjibhai
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
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