Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
57 words
A digital imaging file processing system for processing and filing digitized documents comprising: scanner means (530, 532, 534, 536, 538) for scanning and converting a group of input documents into digital image data; storage means (210, 212) for storing digital image data; and detection means (402, 404) for detecting and storing highlighted areas on the input documents.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
57 words
A digital imaging file processing system for processing and filing digitized documents comprising: scanner means (530, 532, 534, 536, 538) for scanning and converting a group of input documents into digital image data; storage means (210, 212) for storing digital image data; and detection means (402, 404) for detecting and storing highlighted areas on the input documents.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
142 words
The digital imaging file processing system of claim 1 wherein said detection means further comprises: first illumination means (528) for illuminating said input documents with light of a first illumination quality; second illumination means (528) for illuminating said input documents with light of a second illumination quality; output comparison means which obtains a comparison value from comparing at each predefined cell of pixels, the difference of potential output of the first illumination means with the difference of potential output of the second illumination means; and thresholding means for thresholding at each cell, the result of said output comparison means and determining the presence of highlighting in the cell if the comparison value is greater than or equal to a predefined threshold value, while determining the non-presence of highlighting in the cell if the comparison value is less than the predefined threshold value.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
28 words
The digital imaging file processing system of claim 2 further comprising: highlight mark shape assimilation means (402, 404) for assimilating detected highlight marks into a combination of rectangles.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
48 words
The digital imaging file processing system of claim 3 further comprising: highlight mark shape determination means (402, 404) for determining the shape of said detected, assimilated highlight marks, whereby the highlighted indicia on the documents are given special treatment by the system according the corresponding highlight mark shape.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
72 words
A digital imaging file processing system for processing and filing digitized documents comprising: scanner means (530, 532, 534, 536, 538) for scanning and converting a group of input documents into digital image data; storage means (210, 212) for storing digital image data; and header page means (600) associated with each group of documents to be digitized for automatically instructing the operation of the system with the use of a coded header page.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
72 words
A digital imaging file processing system for processing and filing digitized documents comprising: scanner means (530, 532, 534, 536, 538) for scanning and converting a group of input documents into digital image data; storage means (210, 212) for storing digital image data; and header page means (600) associated with each group of documents to be digitized for automatically instructing the operation of the system with the use of a coded header page.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
42 words
The digital imaging file processing system of claim 5 wherein said header page includes instructions relating to the control of the scanner means, control of the storage means and the use, non-use and nature of use of an optical character recognition device.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
40 words
The digital imaging file processing system of claim 1 further comprising: header page means (600) associated with each group of documents to be digitized for automatically instructing the operation of the system with the use of a coded header page.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
42 words
The digital imaging file processing system of claim 7 wherein said header page includes instructions relating to the control of the scanner means, control of the storage means and the use, non-use and nature of use of an optical character recognition device.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
30 words
The digital imaging file processing system of claim 9 further comprising: optical character recognition means (208, 418) for converting said digital image data into alphanumeric characters to form text data.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
22 words
The digital imaging file processing system of claim 1 wherein said scanner means includes means for reading bar code information (402, 404).