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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. 04, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 3/36 ; H04N 5/253 ; H04N 9/11 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 3/36 ; H04N 5/253 ; H04N 9/11 ;
Abstract
Apparatus for digitizing images ( ) includes a reader device ( ), such as a CCD array, having a photo-sensitive surface ( ) that comprises a large number of pixels arrayed longitudinally and laterally. The reader device ( ) is subjected to a ninety degree rotation and/or linear displacement by a distance of several pixels, as necessary, before and/or during the digitization process so as to provide optimum digital resolution for a variety of image formats.