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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:
Jun. 15, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Seiichi Hashiya, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382162 ;
Abstract
A color detecting apparatus comprises a mechanism for decomposing light from an inspection target object into a plurality of kinds of wavelength components and for inputting the wavelength components as spectrum data, a memory for storing the spectrum data, a mechanism for calculating out a physical characteristic amount of the spectrum data, a memory for storing reference data to be used as reference for the characteristic amount, and a mechanism for comparing the characteristic amount with the reference data, thereby to determine whether or not a color of the inspection target object is a reference color.