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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:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2005
Applicant:
Bungo Shimada, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Bungo Shimada, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention uses a storage device more effectively than ever before to store image data in a predetermined storage device for future security chasing. A determination unit () determines whether related image data which can be considered substantially identical to image data acquired by an acquisition unit () is stored in a predetermined storage device () for future chasing. If related image data is stored, link information to the related image data is written instead of writing the acquired image data to the storage device (). On the other hand, no related image data is stored, the acquired image data is written to the storage device ().