Thinning method of an image

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1993-04-02

1995-01-24

Mancuso, Joseph

Image analysis

Histogram processing

For setting a threshold

382 27, G06K 944

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053848667

ABSTRACT:
An image thinning method for obtaining a resultant image of one pixel width without removing the object being thinned when the object changes width from 3 pixels to 2 pixels. An index pixel value is defined to be a value that is not used in the image. The object is scanned so that each pixel is examined sequentially. The pixel value of the pixel being examined is changed according to the defined rules so as to create a thinned image with a width of one pixel.

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