Image processor
CA 2072838 C · Owner: Funada, Masahiro · Inventors: Funada, Masahiro; Takaragi, Yoichi; Udagawa, Yutaka
Overview
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An image processor having a circuit for holding data on features of registered specific images a circuit for, determining a similarity between features of an input image and the held features of each of the specific images and a, circuit for updating the held content of the holding circuit from the outside through a line. The image processor also has a judgment circuit for determining the degree of similarity between an input image and each of the specific images according to tint distributions of these images and a circuit for registering data on the tint distribution of each specific image.
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- Filed June 30, 1992 and granted April 27, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 30, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 30, 2014.
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