摘要 |
<p>There is no pertinent method for storing two dimensional objects, e.g. characters, figures, drawings, or illustrations except printing on paper. An object of the invention is to provide a method of compressing inputting two-dimensional object, compressing the two-dimensional data in a short time to a small amount of data and reproducing in any size at any position. This invention reads two dimensional object, e.g. characters, figures, drawings or illustrations optically, extracts peripheral points from a binary image , approximates the peripheral lines by Fluency functions, reckons curvatures at all points, and finds joints. The peripheral points series are divided by the joints. The lines between two neighboring joints are approximated by straight lines, arcs and free curves in this order. The free curves are approximated by linear combinations of Fluency functions. Adoption of joints greatly alleviates the quantity of data. Approximation by Fluency functions heightens the quality of the reproduced objects. <IMAGE></p> |