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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:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2006
Applicant:
Yasuo Komada, Inagi, JP;
Inventor:
Yasuo Komada, Inagi, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The object of this invention is to reduce the effort of deleting and information symbol from a read image. To accomplish this, an image of a document with an information symbol is read (S), and the information symbol is identified in the read image (S). The identified information symbol is decoded (S), and it is determined on the basis of the decoding result whether the data format of the information symbol is a desired one (S). On the basis of the determination, if the data format is the desired one, the information symbol is deleted from the read image (S).