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Digital image processing device involving processing of areas of image, based on respective contour line traces

US5448692A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 27, 1992
Grant dateSep 5, 1995
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Expiry dateMar 27, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/3872
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image processing device incorporated in a digital image forming apparatus and capable of effecting various kinds of digital image processing, e.g., erasing, italicizing and shadowing, and blanking with a particular area of an image. Considering the fact that frame lines included in a document image can replace marks to be entered by a marker pen, the image processing device extracts areas each being delimited by a frame line as candidates for image processing.

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