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                Appeal No. 96-3635                                                                                                       
                Application 08/209,096                                                                                                   


                machine’s accept/reject judgment of image quality.                                                                       



                        After document scanning has ended, machine-unacceptable digital images are converted to                          

                visual images.  These images are then reviewed by a person to determine whether or not the machine’s                     

                image quality decision conforms to an image-quality decision made by the reviewer.  Based on this                        

                review of the machine’s operation, the user may change the previously-defined image quality                              

                parameters so that in the future the machine will make image quality decisions that are more in line with                

                the image quality decision that a person would have made.                                                                

                        Archival storing of digital images and associated data occurs only when the machine makes a                      

                recommendation to archive.                                                                                               

                                                             The Prior Art                                                               

                        Dinan discloses a machine based document archival method which scans a document and forms                        

                one or more digital images and associated document data (the encoded information taught at column 5,                     

                lines 1-5).  The method detects anomalous conditions that may occur during document scanning and/or                      

                subsequent processing and defines a plurality of image quality parameters in the form of gray scale                      

                values.  Unit 24 of Figure 1 may monitor the distribution of gray scale values in the image data and                     

                create a histogram, which is a distribution of gray scale values which has prescribed limits.  If the                    

                distribution falls outside of the limits, a malfunction signal is generated, which signal may be utilized to             


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