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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. 23, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382305 ; 382298 ;
Abstract
An image retrieving apparatus having a reading unit for reading the image of an original, a comparing unit for comparing the image data of the original outputted from the reading unit with a plurality of image data stored in a storage medium, and a retrieving unit for outputting one of the image data generally coincident with the image data of the original from the storage medium, and the discrimination information for discriminating the image data generally coincident, in accordance with the comparison result by the comparing unit.