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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:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2005
Applicants:
Hiroshi Hayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshiyuki Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshitake Matsubara, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyotaka Tsuchibuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Noriko Arai, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichi Shimizu, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Hiroshi Hayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshiyuki Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshitake Matsubara, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyotaka Tsuchibuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Noriko Arai, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichi Shimizu, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing apparatus has an extracting unit, a dividing unit and a text searching unit. The extracting unit extracts a text part from an image. The dividing unit classifies text in the text part based on color information of the text. The text searching unit searches the text based on the color information.