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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:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2001
Applicant:
Kyoko Nakamura, Toyonaka, JP;
Inventor:
Kyoko Nakamura, Toyonaka, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image extracting apparatus includes an image database in which a plurality of images are stored, a detecting portion which detects the orientation of a subject in an image, and an extracting portion which extracts an image including a subject in a predetermined orientation from the image database based on the result of the detection by the detecting portion.