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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. 04, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2006
Applicant:
Shinji Todaka, Inagi, JP;
Inventor:
Shinji Todaka, Inagi, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/03 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/72 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An object of this invention is to allow a user to easily and simply designate or input an image serving as a document search key. That is, a search apparatus reads a document image (S) to obtain image data, extracts an image region in the image data (S), and displays, on display means, a list of images corresponding to the extracted image regions (S). When a user selects at least one of the images displayed in the list via an input means (S), the search is executed by using the selected image as a search key (S).