SIGNAL-PROCESSING DEVICE

Patent №

US 4,724,488

Granted

1988-02-09

Filed 1984

Owner

AGFA-GEVAERT, A NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP OF BELGIUM

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

06677683

A signal-processing device for transforming a digital image signal, that has been obtained by sampling and digitization of a video signal obtained by line-wise scanning of an original, to a binary image signal wherein zero points of the two-dimensional second difference of the digital video signal are determined in order to detect contrast transitions in the original. Unwanted noise components in the video signal are eliminated by masking the second-difference signal.

AI classification

Vision1.00
Planning0.05
Evolutionary computation0.02
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

AGFA-GEVAERT, A NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP OF BELGIUM

assignment · 47820893

Assignors

VAN DAELE, JEAN A., PANDELAERS, PATRICK M.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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