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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:
Feb. 01, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kazuo Otani, Kodaira, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358453 ; 358452 ; 358449 ;
Abstract
An area designating apparatus which determines the length of a desired area of an image in one of two directions by designating two points. The apparatus having a designating unit for designating a desired position, a detecting unit for detecting the position designated by the designating unit, and a controlling unit for storing in a memory the last position detected by the detecting unit and the position detected by the detecting unit immediately before detecting the last detected position, as the coordinate values of the desired area in one of the two directions.