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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6330358 | Apparatus for character segmentation and apparatus for character recognition using the same Hand-written characters which have been turned to electronic data are input by input means, and fields of induction on the retina of the character image are calculated by field of induction estimating means. By using the fields of induction on the retina ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 5845020 | Character recognizing apparatus The invention relates to optical character recognition and to apparatus for representing characters in a manner analogous to the field which one would expect to be induced on the retina of the eye by a particular character. A character to be recognized is... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5459861 | Evaluation support method for retrieved data A plurality of data stored in a data base memory are displayed on a display portion at random, and when a retriever designates a desired data among the displayed data by a keyboard or a pointing device, a CPU stores the data in an auxiliary memory, estima... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5459815 | Speech recognition method using time-frequency masking mechanism A speech recognition method in which input speech signals are converted to digital signals and then time sequentially converted to cepstrum coefficients or logarithmic spectra. Dynamic spectrum time sequence is obtained by time frequency filtering of ceps... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5382989 | Apparatus for examining gaze shift in depth direction In an apparatus for examining gaze shift in depth direction, light emitting diodes B and E, or D and C are lit at a plurality of positions with different distance in depth direction from the subject, and eye movement of the subject at that time is detecte... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5365941 | Apparatus for detecting small involuntary movement A target is presented on a board for calculation, eye movement of a subject while he is gazing at the target is detected by an eye movement detecting portion, the output of which is converted into a digital signal in a signal processing circuit and it is ... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5365600 | Image processing system When an image is entered from an input means, a line extracting means extracts and smoothes the contour of that image to obtain a tangent line passing through a certain point on that contour. A region with the certain point as the origin is determined, wh... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5357293 | Apparatus for analyzing depth perception An image at a distant point and an image at a close point for generating depth perception of a subject are displayed on an image display monitor, and eye movement of the subject at that time is detected by an eye movement detecting portion. A calculating ... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5345944 | Apparatus for medical diagnosis utilizing masking of fixation point When eye movement of a subject is detected by an eye movement detecting portion and head movement of the subject is detected by a head movement detecting portion, a line-of-sight calculating portion calculates the line-of-sight according to the detected o... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5323471 | Pattern recognition apparatus and pattern learning apparatus employing neural net including excitatory element-inhibitory element pair couplings Disclosed in a pattern recognition apparatus including a neural net including a plurality of mutually coupled excitatory element-inhibitory element paris. The elements in the neural net are coupled through pair coupling coefficients and an excitatory elem... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5311879 | Medical diagnostic apparatus utilizing line-of-sight detection In a medical diagnostic apparatus utilizing line-of-sight detection, targets are successively presented from different angles to the subject by a target presenting apparatus, eye movement of the subject while the subject is gazing at the target is detecte... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5305764 | Medical diagnostic apparatus utilizing line-of-sight detection In the medical diagnostic apparatus employing line-of-sight detection, eye movement and head movement of a subject are detected by eye movement detecting portion and head movement detecting portion, respectively, and images of the field of view of the sub... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5212506 | Analysis method of eyeball control system Flicks in one or both of eyes are measured by a sensor (1) employing a limbus reflection method. An output of the sensor is applied to and digitized by an A/D converter (2). The digitized output is applied to a computer (3). The computer calculates flicks... | 05/18/1993 |
| 4990838 | Movement trajectory generating method of a dynamical system A movement trajectory generating system of a dynamical system uses neural network units (1, 2, 3) including cascade connection of a first layer (11, 21, 31), a second layer (12, 22, 32), a third layer (13, 23, 33) and a fourth layer (14, 24, 34), to learn... | 02/05/1991 |
