This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards method and system for suppression of features in digital images of content. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 7149353 entitled “Method and system for suppression of features in digital images of content” on December 12, 2006. The utility patent has been cited 19 times by other U.S. patents in the field of computer technology and in other fields.

Suppression of one or more features in an image of a page of content may be achieved by acquiring a page image, identifying one or more features in the page image that are to be suppressed or not to be suppressed, and preparing a substitute page image which only includes images of the features that are not to be suppressed. Preparing a substitute page image may include generating a blank image and using location and size information to copy images of the non-suppressed features from the original page image to the blank image. In other embodiments, preparing a substitute page image may include removing image information from the original page image outside the non-suppressed features, or identifying and removing features that are to be suppressed from the original page image. Feature suppression may be used to implement access rules that limit the content in a page image. Link: U.S. Patent 7149353

Amazon filed this utility patent on September 23, 2003 giving it a processing time of 1176 days (compared to an average processing time of 1641 in the field). They have a total number of 158 patents. The first named inventor is Jeffrey P. Bezos of Seattle, WA. The patent was allowed by primary examiner Gregory Desire and examiner .

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