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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2020
Applicant:
Imaging Business Machines Llc, Birmingham, AL (US);
Inventor:
Arthur Graham Davis, Hoover, AL (US);
Assignee:
Imaging Business Machines LLC, Birmingham, AL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00456 (2013.01); G06K 9/3233 (2013.01); G06K 9/6202 (2013.01); G06K 9/6232 (2013.01);
Abstract
A document scanner with the capability of landing a document by determining its location on the scanning bed, using intelligent methodologies for framing the document to determine the edges/boundaries of the document, processing the image using various techniques and methodologies to speed up the processing, so that the document feed track does not have to be slowed, and a unique binarization of the image to efficiently create different renderings of the scanned image.