CA2060291A1 - Image processing apparatus - Google Patents

Image processing apparatus

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CA2060291A1
CA2060291A1 CA2060291A CA2060291A CA2060291A1 CA 2060291 A1 CA2060291 A1 CA 2060291A1 CA 2060291 A CA2060291 A CA 2060291A CA 2060291 A CA2060291 A CA 2060291A CA 2060291 A1 CA2060291 A1 CA 2060291A1
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halftone
processing apparatus
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Takayoshi Semasa
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Mitsubishi Electric Corp
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N1/00Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/40Picture signal circuits
    • H04N1/40062Discrimination between different image types, e.g. two-tone, continuous tone
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N1/00Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/40Picture signal circuits
    • H04N1/40075Descreening, i.e. converting a halftone signal into a corresponding continuous-tone signal; Rescreening, i.e. combined descreening and halftoning
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04NPICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N1/00Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
    • H04N1/40Picture signal circuits
    • H04N1/405Halftoning, i.e. converting the picture signal of a continuous-tone original into a corresponding signal showing only two levels
    • H04N1/4051Halftoning, i.e. converting the picture signal of a continuous-tone original into a corresponding signal showing only two levels producing a dispersed dots halftone pattern, the dots having substantially the same size
    • H04N1/4052Halftoning, i.e. converting the picture signal of a continuous-tone original into a corresponding signal showing only two levels producing a dispersed dots halftone pattern, the dots having substantially the same size by error diffusion, i.e. transferring the binarising error to neighbouring dot decisions
    • H04N1/4053Halftoning, i.e. converting the picture signal of a continuous-tone original into a corresponding signal showing only two levels producing a dispersed dots halftone pattern, the dots having substantially the same size by error diffusion, i.e. transferring the binarising error to neighbouring dot decisions with threshold modulated relative to input image data or vice versa

Abstract

An image processing apparatus for outputting an image which contains different kinds of multi-level signals for letters, figures, photographs, screened-halftone, etc. The apparatus comprises a screened-halftone pattern detecting circuit and a continuous-tone pattern detecting circuit for detecting a screened-halftone pattern and a continuous-tone pattern, respectively, by using neighboring pixels of the target pixel, counters for counting UP/DOWN in accordance with the outputs of the detecting circuits, a filter for switching the filtering coefficients of the image signal in multiple stages in accordance with the outputs of the counters and a quantizer for bi-level-quantizing the output of the filter. It is thus possible to produce an image having a good quality free from deterioration due to the rapid switching of region judgements and bi-level-quantizing methods.
CA002060291A 1991-01-30 1992-01-29 Image processing apparatus Expired - Fee Related CA2060291C (en)

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JPHEI3-29636 1991-01-30
JP3029636A JP2871127B2 (en) 1991-01-30 1991-01-30 Image processing apparatus and method

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JP (1) JP2871127B2 (en)
AU (1) AU635676B2 (en)
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DE69209540T2 (en) 1996-09-19
EP0497304A2 (en) 1992-08-05
JP2871127B2 (en) 1999-03-17
AU1049192A (en) 1992-08-13
AU635676B2 (en) 1993-03-25
DE69209540D1 (en) 1996-05-09
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