Subordinate image processing apparatus

Patent 5724579 Issued on March 3, 1998. Estimated Expiration Date:

March 6, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Suzuki, Takeshi

Assignee

Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.

Application

No. 399336 filed on 03/06/1995

US Classes:

707/104.1, Application of database or data structure (e.g., distributed, multimedia, image)358/403, Document filing and retrieval system358/453, Image portion selection382/282, Selecting a portion of an image382/305Image storage or retrieval

Examiners

Primary: Rogers, Scott A.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Cushman, Darby & Cushman IP Group of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro LLP

International Class

G06F 017/30

Foreign Application Priority Data

1994-03-04 JP

Abstract

Subordinate images are produced by extracting parts of photographically obtained or externally supplied main image data of a predetermined image area for improving retrieval properties. First, subordinate image is produced by extracting part of photographically obtained or externally supplied main image data of a predetermined image area, and a second subordinate image is produced by extracting part of the image data of the first subordinate image produced by the first subordinate image producing means. Thus, the subordinate image can be produced from subordinate image data, increasing the freedom degree of the subordinate image production, and it is possible to extract only the necessary data.