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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:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2002
Applicant:
Lilian Labelle, St Samson sur Rance, FR;
Inventor:
Lilian Labelle, St Samson sur Rance, FR;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/54 (2006.01); G06K 9/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention describes a method of validating parameters defining an image, each parameter being represented by one of the tops of a polygon and being able to be associated with one or more functionalities. A point, being able to move in the polygon, makes it possible to validate the parameters and the associated functionalities according to the position of this point with respect to the tops of the polygon. The present invention also describes a search method including at least one parameter validation step as described above.