Method for detecting photocopied or laser-printed documents

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6400834
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09095433

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A method for distinguishing photocopied or laser-printed documents from original documents produced by offset printing, handwriting, or typewriting. A document is scanned at low-resolution and at high-resolution to produce a low-resolution and a high-resolution matrix representation of the presence or absence of ink or toner at discrete locations on the surface of the document. Printed regions detected at low-resolution are used to mask regions of the high-resolution matrix representation from the analysis. The remaining unmasked regions of the high-resolution matrix representation are analyzed to detect discrete microdots uniformly distributed within those regions. The presence of microdots on the surface of the document indicates that the document was produced as a photocopied or a laser-printed duplicate.

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MEI CALIFORNIA INC1545 BARBER LANE MILPITAS CA 95035

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Murphy, Stephen C Payette, ID 21 747

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