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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:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tetsuya Miwa, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshinori Yamaguchi, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382289 ; 382170 ; 382198 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for reliably detecting the upside and downside vertical direction of an image, such as characters on a document. The method involves judging the upside and downside vertical direction of the characters in each line, and specifying the upside and downside vertical direction of the characters on the entire image on the basis of the vertical directions detected line by line.