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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:
Dec. 19, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2003
Applicant:
Toshifumi Yamaai, Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Toshifumi Yamaai, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01); H04N 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A document image is often accidentally placed at an undesirable angle during image scanning. In order to correct the orientation of the image document, an angle must be determined based upon the document image. In determining the angle, the document image is processed to reverse the brightness as necessary.