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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:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Ideyama, Toyokawa, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345418 ;
Abstract
An image editing apparatus reads a document image and obtains image data. Thus obtained image data is separately stored as data to be displayed on a display and data for recognizing a closed region in the image. In order to more readily recognize such a closed region, only the latter data is processed without changing the data to be displayed on the display. Thus, an image much easier to view can be displayed on the display.