Patent №
US 5,963,342
Granted
1999-10-05
Filed 1995
Owner
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Lab
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AI components
1
vision
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
08544194
An object of the present invention is to data compress a binary image which includes a pseudo expressed halftone image effectively. To attain this object, an image processing apparatus of the present invention comprises region division means for dividing an input binary image data into a region of a pseudo expressed halftone image portion and a region of another portion, first encoding means for generating multi-value image data from binary image data of said pseudo expressed halftone image portion and encoding the obtained multi-value image data, second encoding means for encoding at least a part of the binary image data from a portion other than the pseudo expressed halftone image portion.
AI classification
Ownership
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
assignment · 77710269
Assignors
HIRABAYASHI, YASUJI
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