Patents by Inventor Ravi Dwivedula

Ravi Dwivedula 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).

  • Method and apparatus for cropping images
    Patent number: 8218890
    Abstract: The boundaries of a scanned digital document are determined by identifying the largest connected component in the received digital document and assigning the boundaries of the largest connected component as the boundaries of the received digital document or by using a row by row and column by column analysis of the received digital document to identify horizontal and vertical bands in the digital image having pixels with a value opposite to the value of pixels of a background of the received digital document and assigning the horizontal and vertical bands to be the boundaries of the received digital document. These processes may be performed in series or parallel by a processor associated with a scanner that creates the digital document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: The Neat Company
    Inventors: Adam Turkelson, Ravi Dwivedula
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CROPPING IMAGES
    Publication number: 20090185752
    Abstract: The boundaries of a scanned digital document are determined by identifying the largest connected component in the received digital document and assigning the boundaries of the largest connected component as the boundaries of the received digital document or by using a row by row and column by column analysis of the received digital document to identify horizontal and vertical bands in the digital image having pixels with a value opposite to the value of pixels of a background of the received digital document and assigning the horizontal and vertical bands to be the boundaries of the received digital document. These processes may be performed in series or parallel by a processor associated with a scanner that creates the digital document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: DIGITAL BUSINESS PROCESSES, INC.
    Inventors: Ravi Dwivedula, Adam Turkelson