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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:
May. 29, 2012

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2009
Applicants:

Shinichi Eguchi, Inagi, JP;

Hajime Kawashima, Inagi, JP;

Kouichi Kanamoto, Inagi, JP;

Shohei Hasegawa, Inagi, JP;

Katsutoshi Kobara, Inagi, JP;

Maki Yabuki, Inagi, JP;

Inventors:

Shinichi Eguchi, Inagi, JP;

Hajime Kawashima, Inagi, JP;

Kouichi Kanamoto, Inagi, JP;

Shohei Hasegawa, Inagi, JP;

Katsutoshi Kobara, Inagi, JP;

Maki Yabuki, Inagi, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention firstly roughly classifies an analysis range specified by the operator in the color image data of a form into background, a character frame and a character, precisely specifies a character frame on the basis of the classification result, eliminates the character from the color image data from which the background is eliminated and recognizes the remaining character.


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