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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:
Jan. 23, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Xing Li, Webster, NY (US);
Michael E. Meyers, Fairport, NY (US);
Francis K. Tse, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for classifying image data. A peak/valley detection device may count peaks and valleys within a window. A local roughness of the image data may be determined and the data may be classified based on the peak/valley count and the local roughness.