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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. 23, 2000
Filed:
May. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Naoki Hayashi, Nakai-machi, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707528 ;
Abstract
A document processor colorizing a black-and-white document by converting a portion of a document which is highlighted with marks, such as underline or hatching, into a highlight expression having color. The document processor inputs document image information, detects a mark from the inputted image information, detects a character string to be subjected to alteration of a visual characteristic thereof from an area covered by the detected mark, determine in what manner the visual characteristic of the character string is to be altered, and generates new image information containing an altered visual characteristic of the character string.