Distributed image processing apparatus
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1. A distributed image processing apparatus, comprising:
- an image managing unit to manage a data base in which real image data has been stored;
a processing unit connected to said image managing unit through a communication line;
a teaching data forming section within said processing unit for forming mask teaching data indicative of an outline of an object and transferring to said image managing unit with respect to thin-out image data obtained from the real image data stored in said data based as a target; and
a mask data forming section within said image managing unit for forming mask data indicative of the object outline from the real image data in said data base by using said mask teaching data transferred from said teaching data forming section as a reference.
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Abstract
A processing unit (workstation) is connected through a communication line to an image managing unit (server) to manage a data base in which real image data has been stored. A teaching data forming section of the processing unit forms mask teaching data indicative of an object outline with respect to thin-out image data obtained from the real image data stored in the data base as a target and transfers to the image managing unit as a server. A mask data forming section of the image managing section forms mask data indicative of the object outline from the real image data in the data base by using the transferred mask teaching data as a reference (guidance).
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1. A distributed image processing apparatus, comprising:
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an image managing unit to manage a data base in which real image data has been stored; a processing unit connected to said image managing unit through a communication line; a teaching data forming section within said processing unit for forming mask teaching data indicative of an outline of an object and transferring to said image managing unit with respect to thin-out image data obtained from the real image data stored in said data based as a target; and
a mask data forming section within said image managing unit for forming mask data indicative of the object outline from the real image data in said data base by using said mask teaching data transferred from said teaching data forming section as a reference. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A distributed image processing apparatus, comprising:
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a data base in which one or a plurality of original shape data indicative of an object shape as a target to form real image data and mask data have been stored; an image managing unit to manage said data base; a processing unit connected to said image managing unit through a communication line; a teaching data forming section within said processing unit for selecting, as mask teaching data, said original shape data adapted to an object as a detection target of an outline in thin-out image data obtained from the real image data in said data base and for notifying to said image managing unit; and a mask data forming section within said image managing unit for forming mask data indicative of the object outline from the real image data in said data base by using said mask teaching data transferred from said teaching data forming section as a reference. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
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a teaching data forming unit forming mask teaching data indicative of an outline of an object from thin-out image data obtained from real image data stored in a data base; and a mask data forming unit forming mask data indicative of the object outline from said real image data by using said mask teaching data as a reference.
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21. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
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a data base having one or a plurality of original shape data indicative of a shape of an object as a target to form real image data and mask data; a teaching data forming unit selecting said original shape data, as mask teaching data, adapted to the object as a target to detect an outline in thin-out image data obtained from the real image data in said data base; and a mask data forming unit forming mask data indicative of an outline of the object from the real image data of said data base by using said mask teaching data as guidance.
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22. A distributed processing system, comprising:
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a communications link; a local processing unit connected to said communications link and allowing a user to designate an initial mask of an image at a first resolution for further processing; and an image management unit connected to said communications link, providing the image at the first resolution to said local processing unit over said communications link, receiving the initial mask from the local processing unit over said communications link and performing image processing on the image at a second higher resolution.
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23. A distributed processing system, comprising:
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a communications link; a local processing unit connected to said communications link and allowing a user to designate an initial mask of an image at a first resolution using shape data; and an image management unit connected to said communications link, providing the image at the first resolution to said local processing unit over said communications link, receiving the initial mask from the local processing unit over said communications link and performing image processing on the image at a second higher resolution to form a refined mask.
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