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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. 25, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2002
Applicants:
Guotong Feng, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Michael George Fuchs, Boise, ID (US);
Charles A. Bouman, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Inventors:
Guotong Feng, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Michael George Fuchs, Boise, ID (US);
Charles A. Bouman, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/409 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An input image is transformed to produce an output image. First pixels occurring at edges within the input image are detected. Second pixels that are part of text within the input image are also detected. The first pixels and the second pixels are combined to produce the output image.