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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:
Aug. 06, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brett K Nelson, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
New DEST Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382-9 ; 3582611 ; 383 18 ; 383 28 ; 383 56 ;
Abstract
Image/text filtering apparatus and method for use in optical character recognition (OCR) scanning is disclosed. The invention filters video data representing text and image data on a document and erases the image data so that only the text data remains.