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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:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Zhigang Fan, Webster, NY (US);
Robert Cooperman, Middlesex County, MA (US);
Robert Shuchatowitz, Brighton, MA (US);
Lucy Hadden, La Jolla, CA (US);
Emil Rainero, Penfield, NY (US);
Frederick Roberts, Jr, Webster, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382198 ; 382202 ; 382203 ;
Abstract
Font attributes of characters or letters are estimated by an optical character recognition system using character, run or stroke-based techniques with or without character identification information.