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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:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2007
Applicant:
David Thomas Gering, Waukesha, WI (US);
Inventor:
David Thomas Gering, Waukesha, WI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for selecting an application for processing an electronic image file based upon the content of the image file. Certain embodiments provide an image selector selecting an image from an image storage device, an identification module providing a label to the image based on the content of the image, an application selector choosing at least one application from a plurality of applications to process the image, and a learning unit maintaining a record of image labels and the applications presently and previously processing the images.