According to this invention, in image data A and B which are respectively constituted by pixel groups .SIGMA.A.sub.ij and .SIGMA.B.sub.ij consisting of N pixels A.sub.ij and B.sub.ij (N is a positive integer; i and j respectively indicate a row position and a column position), and in which density data A.sub.dij and B.sub.dij of the pixels are expressed by n(2m)-bit data (n and m are positive integers), designated 2m-bit portion a.sub.ij of each density data A.sub.dij of image data A is divided ...

A method for automatic analysis and enhancement of digitized images to identify the area of interest (AOI) from background areas divides a digitized image into a number of regions, and calculates histograms of gray scale or density for each region. An image of the regions in histogram space is created according to a selected sequence of the regions, chosen to preserve spatial proximity. This image is then processed by peak detection to identify features grouped spatially and by similarity of his...

A first memory stores a divided three-dimensional binary image as image data j of p bits. A second memory, equal to the first memory in size, stores data k of q bits, representing the section number of a corresponding memory section of the first memory. A histogram computing circuit concatenates data j and data k and obtains a histogram for the concatenated data. A computing unit computes a marginal distribution of the three-dimensional image on the basis of the histogram. A data conversion unit...

A histogram generator creates a histogram to detect the characteristics of video signals. The histogram generator allows for a reduction in problems of instability caused by noise that may exist in other histogram generators. A width is allocated to thresholds used in creating the histogram, and signal values are counted after weighting those falling near a threshold.

A method and apparatus for classification of scanned symbols into equivalence classes as may be used for image data compression. The present invention performs run-length symbol extraction and classifies symbols based on both horizontal and vertical run length information. An equivalence class is represented by an exemplar. Feature-based classification criteria for matching an exemplar is defined by a corresponding exemplar template. The feature-based classification criteria all use quantities, ...

An optical character reader is characterized in that the reader determines accurately the range occupied by the major portion of each character in each character line. This is accomplished by dividing an image read from a document into character lines and counting the number of picture elements in series with each picture element forming each character on each character line in each direction of a plurality of predetermined directions. Each picture element is provided with a code data indicating...

In the preparatory stage, among all possible lines in two rectangular windows (12) and (14), assuming dust, a flaw or the like to be a part of a line, the most valid one is recognized as a line, and the inclination and characteristic values of the line are obtained, and then each rectangular window is deformed into a parallelogram-shaped window along this inclination. In the detecting stage, the inclination and characteristic values of the line to be detected are obtained by use of the parallelo...

A digital image display apparatus for converting a pixel value of medical digital image data such as MRI image data or CT image data into brightness in accordance with a display window including a window level and a window width of a display unit, determines the optimum window level and width for each image as follows. The apparatus obtains a histogram of pixel values from the digital image data and calculates brightness data of a pixel value having a highest frequency, brightness data of a pixe...

An image processing system and method are used to ascertain the position of lead frame beams on a semiconductor lead frame prior to the formation of wire bonds to those lead frame beams. The lead frame beams are illuminated by a light source and light reflected from the lead frame beams is detected. Digital data representative of the reflected light is generated and stored in a memory. A control means defines corridors in that memory which are analyzed to define the position of the lead frame be...

Two-dimensional tomographic image data is binarized by a predetermined threshold value, and two-dimensional labeling numbers are sequentially given to areas formed by binarization. Data of adjacent tomographic images are bit-added to generate data of a double bit length. When a value of this doubled-bit data appears at a frequency over a predetermined value, it is determined that corresponding areas of the adjacent tomographic image data are connected three-dimensionally, and a three-dimensional...