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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. 18, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Koichi Noguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Takahashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Tomotoshi Nakahara, Yokohama, JP;
Yuji Yasuda, Tokyo, JP;
Michihito Ohashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; G01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358300 ; 358296 ; 346157 ;
Abstract
An electrophotographic digital copier capable of identifying a particular color existing in a document image. The copier copies both of a bicolor document and a monocolor document in the same period of time. Even when monocolor documents and bicolor documents are to be copied together, the copier executes monocolor copy processing with the former and bicolor copy processing with the latter automatically.