Pixel rendering

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1988-02-23

1992-08-04

Boudreau, Leo H.

Image analysis

Histogram processing

For setting a threshold

382 27, G06K 936

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051366649

ABSTRACT:
A method for rendering pixels for an object to be displayed in an image, based on parameters defining the object, by generating, in parallel, pixel values for at least some pixels contained in the object, but fewer than all pixels in an image, and repeating that step until all pixels for the object have been rendered.

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