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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:
Aug. 03, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akira Morisawa, Ichikawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382305 ; 382306 ;
Abstract
An image retrieving apparatus for retrieving a first image by a second image associated with the first image, comprises a read unit for reading a plurality of images on a sheet, a discriminating unit for discriminating the images on the sheet read by the read unit as second images, and a storage unit for storing the second images discriminated by the discrimination unit in a storage medium.