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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:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
James E. Bollman, Williamson, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for modifying the perceived quality of a document or image. The method includes inputting image or document data representing the image or document to be modified, analyzing the image or document data for one or more objects, evaluating the objects as one or more of acceptable, improvable or deficient based on one or more quality factors. For each object that is evaluated as other than acceptable, the method and apparatus creates, displays and possibly applies a quality recommendation for the objects.