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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. 14, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1997
Shunpei Tamaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image input device is provided which can instruct a host computer to perform a cleared process with respect to image data obtained by scanning without a user's instruction being input to the host computer. The image input device is adapted to be connected to a host computer so as to transfer image data to the host computer. An instruction with respect to what process is to be applied to the image data by the host computer is input to the image input device by the user. The content of the instruction is announced to the host computer when the image data is transferred to the host computer.
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