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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:
Nov. 11, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2000
Applicant:
Takenori Idehara, Machida, JP;
Inventor:
Takenori Idehara, Machida, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of processing image data including the steps of receiving a printer language data, obtaining a bitmap data by developing the printer language data, obtaining a BM compressed data by compressing the bitmap data, comparing volumes of the printer language data and the BM compressed data and storing the image data of the smaller of two volumes while discarding the image data of the larger of two volumes.