Patents by Inventor Craig Lapan

Craig Lapan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20050243378
    Abstract: An image file arrangement for identifying image defects in a plurality of imaged documents, where each imaged document includes at least one image rendition. The image file arrangement comprises an image quality flag file having a record entry for each of the plurality of imaged documents that has at least one image rendition with at least one identified image defect, wherein each record entry includes information about the at least one identified image condition for the least one flagged image rendition and an image index file including an image index file record for each imaged document, wherein for each imaged document having at least one image rendition having at least one identified image defect, the image index file record for that document includes a reference to the corresponding image quality flag file record and the image quality flag file record includes a reference to the corresponding image index file record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Klein, Craig Lapan, George Reasoner
  • Publication number: 20050243379
    Abstract: A document processing system comprising an image capture subsystem for capturing selected image metrics and at least one image rendition from a plurality of documents and for determining if at least one of the selected image metrics for any of the at least one image rendition does not successfully compare against preselected image quality metric threshold values. An image quality flag is generated for any of the at least one image rendition if it does not successfully compare, and a record entry for each imaged document having at least one flagged image rendition is created in an image quality flag file. An image index file for individually accessing the image renditions is modified to include a reference to the corresponding image quality flag file record entry The document processing system may optionally compare selected document metrics against preselected document metrics in a similar manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Klein, Craig Lapan, George Reasoner
  • Publication number: 20050244035
    Abstract: An image quality assurance method for identifying image defects in a plurality of previously-imaged documents, where each previously-imaged document includes at least one image rendition stored in at least one image rendition file according to type of image rendition. The image renditions are analyzed to provide selected image metrics, the latter of which are compared against preselected image quality metric threshold values. An image quality flag is generated for any image rendition if at least one of the selected image metrics for that image rendition does not successfully compare against the preselected image quality metric threshold values. A record entry is created in an image quality flag file for those documents having at least one flagged image rendition, the record entry including information about the selected image metrics of the at least one flagged image rendition for that imaged document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Klein, Craig Lapan, George Reasoner
  • Publication number: 20050220324
    Abstract: An image quality assurance method for identifying image defects in a plurality of imaged documents, where each imaged document includes at least one image rendition. The image renditions are analyzed to provide selected image metrics, the latter of which are compared against preselected image quality metric threshold values. An image quality flag is generated for any image rendition if at least one of the selected image metrics for that image rendition does not successfully compare against the preselected image quality metric threshold values. A record entry is created in an image quality flag file for those documents having at least one flagged image rendition, the record entry including information about the selected image metrics of the at least one flagged image rendition for that imaged document. Image defects in a plurality of imaged documents can be identified by examining the record entries in the image quality flag file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Klein, Craig Lapan, George Reasoner