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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:
Nov. 09, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kimihiko Higashio, Kobe, JP;
Takashi Matsuno, Matsubara, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
Information processing method, device and program product capable of retrieving image data suitable for certain image data as a color scheme by a simple operation, in which (1) a piece of image data is selected as a retrieval criterion from among a plurality of image data stored in a first memory device, (2) a color stored in combination with a feature color of the selected image data is extracted from a second memory device for storing a plurality of two-color combinations suitable as color schemes, and (3) image data having the extracted color as a feature color is extracted from the first memory device as a retrieval result.