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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:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yoshiko Takeda, Yokohama, JP;
Takeshi Ogaki, Tama, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus having a reading function of reading the images of manuscripts, an attribute judging function of judging types of the attributes of the read-out images, a memory area for storing the images according to rules corresponding to the attributes judged, the function of changing the types of attributes of said images stored in the memory area, and an image forming function of forming images on the basis of the images stored.