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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:
Sep. 10, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
David W Strauss, Needham, MA (US);
Assignee:
Xionics Document Technologies, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395112 ; 395114 ;
Abstract
A multi-interpreter printer recognizes out-of-band characters by measuring pauses in applied data streams and examining as candidate out-of-band characters data portions separated in time from other data by pauses exceeding predetermined durations. Pauses before-and after the candidate out-of-band characters may be examined, and different thresholds may be used for pre-character and post-character pauses.