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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:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2006
Applicants:
Fumihiro Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shinji Yamakawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Hitoshi Itoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In an image processing device which compresses image data which is created by electronizing of a document, to generate compressed image data, a document type judgment unit determines a type of document from the image data. An image compression unit performs a compression encoding of the image data based on a result of the determination of the document type judgment unit.