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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2005
Applicant:
Hirobumi Nishida, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Inventor:
Hirobumi Nishida, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); H04N 1/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of extracting a background area of a document image. The background area of the document image may be extracted by repeating recursively the acts of: extracting a set of white rectangles from a processed area of the document image; dividing the processed area into a plurality of segments using the set of white rectangles as a separator; storing the plurality of segments; and reading the plurality of segments in a predetermined order as a processed area.