THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHADOW PROCESSOR FOR AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

Patent №

US 5,255,353

Granted

1993-10-19

Filed 1992

Owner

RICOH COMPANY, LTD.

Lab

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AI components

vision · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07870228

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A three-dimensional shadow processor adds a three-dimensional shadow having a desired length to a character image included in input image data, in a predetermined direction. Whether or not a pixel of interest is a shadow area is determined by updating, delaying and counting data representative of the remaining length of a shadow on the basis of a set length of a shadow to be generated and image data associated with the pixel of interest. In response to the result of decision, either one of input image data and shadow data is selected and outputted.

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Knowledge representation0.28

Machine learning0.05

Natural language0.01

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Planning0.00

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Ownership

RICOH COMPANY, LTD.

assignment · 65870546

Assignors

ITOH, TAKANORI

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