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US 5,140,647 AGranted
Image joining method and system
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsHirotoshi Ise, Haruo Takeda
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Abstract
An image of a size exceeding a reading surface area of an image input temperature is divided into a plurality of image portions such that the image portions resulting from the division have respective overlap regions. A position detectable mark is attached to each of the overlap regions. The plurality of image portions are joined together into one image by making use of the marks.
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An image joining system comprising:
- image input means;
- image storage means for storing images inputted through said image input means;
- and
- joining position matching means for matching joining positions of the input images to be joined together;
- wherein when an image to be inputted exceeds a reading surface area of said image input means, said image is inputted by dividing said image into a plurality of image portions which have mutually overlapping portions, reading said image portions sequentially, and affixing marks whose positions can be detected to said overlap portions as joining reference points, said joining position matching means identifies discriminatively said joining reference points and joins together said input image portions to one image by making use of said joining reference points.
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An image joining method, the method comprising the steps of:
- dividing an image to be inputted having a size exceeding a reading surface area of image input means into a plurality of image portions to be inputted sequentially such that the image portions have respective overlap regions;
- adding a region position detectable mark to each of the overlap regions to be utilized as a reference point for joining together said image portions;
- inputting the image portions resulting from said division sequentially through said input means;
- storing said divided input image in image storage means;
- identifying discriminatively said reference point from each of said plurality of input image portions;
- joining together said plurality of input image portions into one image by making use of said reference points;
- and
- deleting said position detectable marks.
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