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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2010

Filed:

Feb. 01, 2006
Applicants:

Kim Mccall, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Kurt Piersol, Campbell, CA (US);

John Barrus, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Bradley Rhodes, Mountain View, CA (US);

Stephen Savitzky, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kim McCall, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Kurt Piersol, Campbell, CA (US);

John Barrus, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Bradley Rhodes, Mountain View, CA (US);

Stephen Savitzky, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for displaying a long sequence of images in a short amount of time. In one embodiment, the method comprises selecting page images for display from a plurality of page images corresponding to an image-based document, the plurality of page images including merged page images and each merged page image having salient content from multiple successive page images of the image-based document merged into one image; and serially displaying the selected page images on a display.


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