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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:
Dec. 31, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 10, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masanori Onda, Iwatsuki, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 46 ; 382 44 ;
Abstract
An image processing system including image reading device such as an image scanner for reading an image on a document to produce image signals, a memory for storing the image signals, a data processing unit for processing the image signals. The data processing unit includes a character image discriminating function for discriminating a character image from a picture image, an image orientation detecting function for detecting orientation of the character image to determine whether the orientation of the character image is in a correct orientation, and an image rotation function for processing the image signals to rotate the image so that the image is correctly oriented.