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Picture processing apparatus

US5101440A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 8, 1989
Grant dateMar 31, 1992
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Expiry dateSep 8, 2009

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T2207/20084
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A picture processing apparatus in which edges of an input picture are detected by an edge detecting circuit to form edge detection data, which then are transformed so that a histogram of the edge detection data becomes substantially flat, and in which a so-called line picture is displayed on the basis of the transformed edge detection data.

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