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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. 28, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382175 ; 382282 ; 358453 ; 358452 ;
Abstract
In marker edition mode, characters such as a character line is read in a closed area on a document marked with a marker. Then, the image data is analyzed to decide image processing means for marker edition such as coloring. A rectangular area including the image is recognized as image processing area. Even if the image is included partially in the closed area marked with a marker, a rectangular area including the image wholly can be specified as image processing area.