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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. 23, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2000
Applicant:
Jan Bares, Webster, NY (US);
Inventor:
Jan Bares, Webster, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K009/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for classifying an image as one of color and neutral assigns respective values associated with a plurality of pixels in the image to a plurality of respective current pixels. Reduced image pixels are produced as a function of the current pixels. The image is classified as one of neutral and color as a function of the reduced image pixels.