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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:
Nov. 26, 1991
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1989
James I Hackett, Victor, NY (US);
David W Dellert, Rochester, NY (US);
Mark R Knudson, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
The apparatus and method of the present invention utilizes three scaling functions for bi-tonal digitized image data such as documents. The digitized document resolution (i.e. from a digitizing scanner) may be different from the resolution of an image output device (i.e. laser printer, CRT display, fax machine, etc.). The invention takes in the scanned image data and scales the data to compensate for the resolution mismatch of the output device. Although the invention is intended for document archive applications (such as scanning documents on microfilm), the scaling can be performed on any bi-tonal image.