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Image processing apparatus

US4866534A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 17, 1988
Grant dateSep 12, 1989
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Expiry dateMar 17, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/4058
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image processing apparatus for transforming electic data of a half-tone image into a bi-level image by using a dither matrix, having a plurality of dither matrices of different patterns to each other, the dither matrices being chosen to remove textures due to dither processing, wherein the average of electric image data of a block of the size of the dither matrices is calculated, and a dither matrix is selected according to the average.

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