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Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium

US7054029B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 9, 2000
Grant dateMay 30, 2006
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Expiry dateMar 9, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/3871
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Upon synthesizing objects, information bits indicating the types of objects are lost. To solve this problem, this invention provides an image processing apparatus having discrimination means for discriminating a type of object to be rendered, determination means for determining the presence/absence of synthesis of the discriminated object, synthesis means for synthesizing an object and information of the type of object in accordance with the determination result, and processing means for appending information indicating the type of synthesized object to a rendering result obtained by rendering the object to be rendered in units of pixels.

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