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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:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takahiro Kiyohara, Machida, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382164 ; 382165 ; 358500 ; 358501 ;
Abstract
A facsimile apparatus includes a reading unit for reading an original, a discrimination unit for discriminating red images in the image representation provided by the reading unit, a conversion unit for converting, into black images, images discriminated as red images by the discrimination unit in the image representation, and for converting black images into images having a predetermined repeating pattern which look gray, and a transmission unit for performing fascimile transmission of the images converted by the conversion unit.