Image analysis – Histogram processing – For setting a threshold
Patent
1985-03-27
1988-02-02
Boudreau, Leo H.
Image analysis
Histogram processing
For setting a threshold
382 4, 382 27, 382 50, 358260, G06K 956
Patent
active
047232986
ABSTRACT:
An optical and electronic scan produces an image composed of binary value pixels. An automatic picture compression routine reduces the number of pixels in the image. A first stage four to one reduction in the number of pixels is achieved by treating each mutually exclusive four pixel unit as a separate set. A binary value is assigned to each four pixel set. That binary value is assigned to a single pixel in a first output image. The same process is repeated a second time to provide a final output image that has one-sixteenth the number of pixels as has the original input image. The value assigned to each four pixel unit set is a weighted function of the binary value of each of the sixteen pixels in a four pixel by four pixel subfield in which the unit set is centered. The greatest weight is give to the center pixels, that is, to the four pixels of the unit set. Lesser weight is given to the peripheral pixels. Among the peripheral pixels, lesser weight is given to the four corner pixels than is given to the eight side pixels between the corners. In the weighting process, the significance of the binary value of the sixteen pixels in the subfield is in part a function of the total pattern of the pixel values in the subfield.
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Boudreau Leo H.
Fingermatrix Inc.
Skinner A. Anne
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