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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2022
Applicant:
Imaging Business Machines Llc, Birmingham, AL (US);
Inventor:
Arthur G. Davis, Hoover, AL (US);
Assignee:
Imaging Business Machines LLC, Birmingham, AL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 30/413 (2022.01); G06K 9/62 (2022.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/75 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 30/413 (2022.01); G06K 9/6232 (2013.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/751 (2022.01);
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.