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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:
Nov. 24, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yongchun Lee, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382203 ; 382199 ;
Abstract
A method of identifying business forms that uses contour polygons constructed from linear line segments. Wherein contour polygons are derived from a windowed raster scan of the forms' image. Each of the contour polygons is examined to determine if it represents a text component or a graphic component. All text contour polygons and graphic contour polygons are grouped and profiled. The accumulated profiles are compared against a library of stored profiles of known forms so as to determine a best match thereby identifying the unknown form.