Patents by Inventor Keith D. Collins

Keith D. Collins 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).

  • Systems and methods for modifying image data for background printing
    Patent number: 7102792
    Abstract: The invention is an automatic way to create background images from custom images, enabling cost efficient generation of highly customized products; such as advertisements, checks, greeting cards, stationary, clothing, passports, licenses, identification badges legal documents and legal tender; by generating intermediate image data by over-enhancing the sharpness of the custom image data and subsequently generating modified image data by reducing the sharpness, color and contrast of the intermediate image, whereby the resulting modified image is pleasing to the average consumer without interfering with the application of the product on which the background image is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Reiner Eschbach, Charles M. Hains, Keith D. Collins
  • Systems and methods for modifying image data for background printing
    Publication number: 20030133137
    Abstract: The invention is an automatic way to create background images from custom images, enabling cost efficient generation of highly customized products; such as advertisements, checks, greeting cards, stationary, clothing, passports, licenses, identification badges legal documents and legal tender; by generating intermediate image data by over-enhancing the sharpness of the custom image data and subsequently generating modified image data by reducing the sharpness, color and contrast of the intermediate image, whereby the resulting modified image is pleasing to the average consumer without interfering with the application of the product on which the background image is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: XEROX COPORATION
    Inventors: Reiner Eschbach, Charles M. Hains, Keith D. Collins