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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:
Mar. 28, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Naoaki Kodaira, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroaki Kubota, Kamakura, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345433 ;
Abstract
A document processing apparatus includes a division section for dividing a document image into a plurality of regions or connection components. A recognition section recognizes the type of a region in units of divided regions and edit section edits region data while displaying the recognition result. A shaping section then shapes the document image by using the edited region data.