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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:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2006
Applicant:
Kazuyoshi Noguchi, Toyokawa, JP;
Inventor:
Kazuyoshi Noguchi, Toyokawa, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing apparatus scans an image of a document to thereby create image data, and extracts specific code data from the created image data. If the specific code data is successfully extracted, pattern data corresponding to the specific code data is deleted from the created image data. Further, pattern data corresponding to the specific code data is embedded into the image data.