US Patent Issued to SCREEN HOLDINGS on Oct. 7 for "Image processing method and recording medium for dilating an object in a run-length encoded binary image" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,360, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image processing method and recording medium for dilating an object in a run-length encoded binary image" was invented by Takuya Yasuda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method according to the invention is for dilating an object in a binary image represented by run-length code. The image processing method includes obtaining a target dilation amount representing how much the object is to be dilated, determining a first dilation amount decreasing as a density of runs in the image increases, comparing the target dilation amoun...