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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:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Chia-Hsin Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Viresh Ratnakar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 ; G06F 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 ; G06F 1/700 ;
Abstract
Image partitioning methods, which may be implemented by software or hardware on a computer, partition a set of multiple overlapping images to be transmitted so that only the visible portions of the images are transmitted. The underlying partitioning algorithm uses rectangles to iteratively partition the image set.