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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. 08, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2005
Applicants:
Keiji Kojima, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Tadashi Araki, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Maki Shinoda, Tokyo-to, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus, system, method, computer program and product are disclosed, each capable of correcting distortion in a scanned image, using at least a character line extracted from the scanned image. To extract the character line, a circumscribed rectangle is formed for each character, having a length determined based on an average character size of the scanned image.