Appeal No. 2002-1458
Application 08/785,109
Independent claim 1 present in the application is
representative of the claimed invention and is reproduced as
follows:
1. An imaging apparatus, including:
an image input device having a platen, said image input
device scanning a plurality of undersized originals on the platen
and producing a single digitized image including representations
of each of the plurality of undersized originals imaged by said
device;
a programmable computer capable of processing the digitized
image, said computer including a first memory for storing at
least a portion of the digitized image and program memory for the
storage of executable code suitable for causing said computer to
execute image processing operations on the digitized image,
said computer, in accordance with preprogrammed
instructions, determining a background of the digitized image,
identifying the plurality of digitized undersized originals as
objects within the digitized input image based on the determined
background, determining boundaries of the plurality of objects,
modeling shapes representing the boundaries of each of the
identified plurality of objects, and characterizing each of the
identified plurality of objects by parameters including shape,
position and orientation; and
said computer automatically composing an output document
including a representation of at least one of the plurality of
objects.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Aono et al. (Aono) 5,267,333 Nov. 30, 1993
Suzuki 5,289,570 Feb. 22, 1994
Venable et al. (Venable) 5,485,568 Jan. 16, 1996
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