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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. 06, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kazumasa Koike, Atsugi, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3582612 ; 358426 ;
Abstract
A method and system for determining an optimal line density for further processing of an imaged document, in which contiguously located pixels of a predetermined color in an image document are counted and based thereon image fineness/coarseness and an optimal line density representing the document is determined. The imaged document is then converted to the optimal line density and provided for further processing, such as for transmission via facsimile.