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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. 10, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399 85 ; 399182 ; 358537 ; 395113 ;
Abstract
In order to improve operability of a copying machine which applies an image processing to an area of an original surrounded by a marker, following processes are carried out. An area of an original surrounded by a marker is detected. It is determined whether or not the number of the detected areas exceeds 30, or the time from starting of detection exceeds three minutes during the detection. If any of those two conditions is satisfied, edit based on the marker is not executed and image data which has undergone full-color copying is output.