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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120027301 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INTEGRATING CODE-BASED AND OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGIES INTO A MOBILE VISUAL SEARCH A device for switching between code-based searching, optical character recognition (OCR) searching and visual searching is provided. The device includes a media content input for receiving media content from a camera or other element of the device and transferring this ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027305 | APPARATUS TO PROVIDE GUIDE FOR AUGMENTED REALITY OBJECT RECOGNITION AND METHOD THEREOF A method for providing a guide for augmented reality object recognition includes acquiring image information, analyzing an object corresponding to the image information, and outputting object recognition guide information according to a result of analyzing the object. A... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120014568 | Speech Recognition, and Related Systems In one arrangement, information useful in understanding the content of user speech (e.g., phonemes identified by a speech recognition algorithm, data indicating the gender of the speaker, etc.) is determined at an apparatus (e.g., a cell phone), and accompanies speech d... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110293182 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESOLVING SPATIAL ORIENTATION USING INTELLIGENT OPTICAL SELECTIVITY The present invention provides a method and system for resolving complete free space orientation of an active receiving device at high speed using simple optics, trigonometry, simple circuitry, and using minimal processing power. The rapid triangulation of distance from... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110280448 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHIPPING CONTAINERS A system and method, which enables precise identification of characters contained in vehicle license plates, container I.D, chassis I.D, aircraft serial number and other such identification markings. The system can process these identified characters and operate devices... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110267448 | MICROSCOPY According to one aspect, the present invention relates to an imaging system (100) for providing improved spatial position identification of a plurality of microscopy images. The imaging system (100) comprises a light source (102) for producing light... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110235914 | INVARIANT PULSE LATENCY CODING SYSTEMS AND METHODS SYSTEMS AND METHODS Systems and methods for processing image signals are described. One method comprises obtaining a generator signal based on an image signal and determining relative latencies associated with two or more pulses in a pulsed signal using a function of the generator signal t... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110188755 | PATTERN RECOGNITION USING ACTIVE MEDIA A pattern recognition system includes an active media, an input system, and a sensing system. The active media is such that initial states respectively evolve over time to distinguishable final states. The input system establishes in the active media in an initial state... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110164820 | Records Management System and Method A records management system and method that permits paper records to be tagged, stored and retrieved according to user criteria. The system includes a scanning module, a central server, one or more user workstations and an optical character recognition server. After sca... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110151974 | GESTURE STYLE RECOGNITION AND REWARD Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for determining whether a given gesture was performed with a particular style. This style information may then be used to personalize a gaming or multimedia experience, rewarding users for their individual style... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110144971 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SENTIMENT ANALYSIS A system includes one or more computer processors that are configured to receive data relating to a composition of a target group, receive logged communications of the target group, extract textual information from the logged communications, analyze the textual informat... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110135102 | METHOD, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND SYSTEM FOR LOCALIZING ACOUSTIC SOURCE A system for localizing an acoustic source is provided. This system includes a microphone apparatus, an audio processing apparatus, a photographing apparatus, and a decision apparatus. The microphone apparatus receives an acoustic signal and generates at least one recei... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110129151 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An image processing apparatus including: a scene recognition section recognizing a scene captured by an image; an assigning section selecting a change-target parameter being an adjustment parameter whose parameter value is to be changed from a plurality of adjustment pa... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110129152 | DISTRIBUTED DOCUMENT PROCESSING A system for document processing including decomposing an image of a document into at least one data entry region sub-image, providing the data entry region sub-image to a data entry clerk available for processing the data entry region sub-image, receiving from the data... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110103696 | IMAGE DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISTRIBUTION METHOD The present invention enables image distribution while maintaining privacy, using a simple configuration. An image distribution apparatus which distributes image data to which location information has been added stores information specifying an inhibited area concerning... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110074976 | METHOD OF DETECTING THE EXISTENCE OF VISUALLY SENSITIVE THIN LINES IN A DIGITAL IMAGE A method of detecting existence of visually thin lines in images is described herein. The method includes profile generation, profile analysis and deciding the existence of thin lines. The profile generation includes generating a profile in each direction of the input i... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075928 | High-resolution, common-path interferometric imaging systems and methods High-resolution, common-path interferometric imaging systems and methods are described, wherein a light source generates and directs light toward a sample. An optical imaging system collects the resultant substantially scattered component and substantially unscattered c... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110052011 | Monolithic Image Perception Device and Method The present invention is directed to an apparatus which can acquire, readout and perceive a scene based on the insertion, or embedding of photosensitive elements into or on a transparent or semi-transparent substrate such as glass or plastic. The substrate itself may ac... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110052083 | INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD AND APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM An information providing method includes a recognition step of recognizing an image-capture position, in the real world, at which a captured image was captured; a retrieval step of retrieving information that is associated with the image-capture position, which has been... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110042898 | UNIQUE SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR READING PLAYING CARDS A sensing system for determining the rank and suit of playing cards is disclosed. The system includes a sensing module capable of reading a line of data from a printed image, a position sensor and a hardware component that combines the signals from the sensing module an... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110002542 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELIMINATING UNWANTED OBJECTS FROM A STREAMING IMAGE A method and apparatus for eliminating unwanted objects in a streaming image. The method includes recognizing unwanted objects in a streaming image and eliminating the recognized unwanted objects from the streaming image.... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100321709 | AUTOMATED AUDIT SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD A system, apparatus and method are provided to automate an audit of an information technology (IT) system.... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100302595 | Image Reproducing Apparatus And Imaging Apparatus An image reproducing apparatus includes a reproduction control unit which selects n out of given m input images as n output images by evaluating similarity among different input images of the m input images, and outputs the n output images onto a reproduction medium (m ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100293133 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC RETURN LETTER GENERATION Systems and methods for automatically generating a return letter are disclosed. The system may include a computer usable medium in communication with a processor. The processor may determine whether a source document with contact information includes one or more fields ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100290709 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING TYPES OF VEHICLES Consistent with the disclosed embodiments, the shapes of the windows of vehicles are used as features for recognizing vehicle types. This method transforms vehicle images with different view angles in a homographic manner to a normalized coordinate system and further ex... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100284612 | FLASH DETECTION A method of processing an image signal comprises: receiving an image signal comprising a series of frames, performing light source detection on each frame, and detecting a flash at frame n of length m frames when the following criteria are satisfied: the difference betw... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100284617 | IDENTIFICATION OF AN OBJECT IN MEDIA AND OF RELATED MEDIA OBJECTS A method obtains media on a device, provides identification of an object in the media via image/video recognition and audio recognition, and displays on the device identification information based on the identified media object.... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100259476 | PRESENTATION CONTROLLING SYSTEM AND PRESENTATION SYSTEM HAVING SAME A presentation controlling system is provided for controlling a cursor of a computer. The computer includes a display screen to display the cursor and is configured to output an image to a projector. The projector is configured to project the image onto a projection pan... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100246962 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Text data is extracted from image data read by an image reader. Log data containing the extracted text data is generated. The generated log data is stored in a log management server.... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100246961 | MULTI-FRAME VIDEOTEXT RECOGNITION Multi-frame persistence of videotext is exploited to mitigate challenges posed by varying characteristics of videotext across frame instances to improve OCR techniques. In some examples, each frame of video is processed to form multiple binary images, and one or more te... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100232671 | OPTIMISED REGION OF INTEREST SELECTION A statistical framework for identifying regions of discrimination between two groups of imaged objects involves determining a weight map defining the regions of discrimination by minimizing the sample size required to discriminate the two groups in a numerical optimizat... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100228487 | Postural information system and method For two or more devices, each device having one or more portions, a method includes, but is not limited to: obtaining physical status information regarding one or more portions for each of the two or more devices, including information regarding one or more spatial aspe... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100202692 | INFORMATION EMBEDDING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION EMBEDDING METHOD FOR ADDING INFORMATION TO DOCUMENT IMAGE BY EMBEDDING INFORMATION THEREIN, INFORMATION DETECTING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION DETECTING METHOD In an information embedding apparatus, an image compositing portion selectively reads an embedding pattern from a plurality of types of the embedding patterns in accordance with an embedding information for a background of a document image. The image compositing portion... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100202691 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SCANNER APPARATUS In a multi-functional peripheral as an embodiment of the present invention, reading operation of an original is performed and form recognition processing is performed. Here, original image data is compared with form data held in advance and it is determined whether ther... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100191369 | SYSTEM OF MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION PROVIDING AND INFORMATION ACQUISITION FOR VENDING MACHINE BASED UPON WIRE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND A METHOD OF MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION PROVIDING AND INFORMATION ACQUISITION FOR VENDING MACHINE Disclosed is a system for managing a vending machine using wire and wireless two-way communication, and providing and acquiring various intangible knowledge information items, and a method of managing a vending machine, and providing and acquiring intangible knowledge i... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100172586 | REAL-TIME IMAGE COLLAGE METHOD AND APPARATUS A method for generating combined images from images taken separately with the same or a similar background, comprising the steps of: a) capturing a first image containing one or more selected items; b) capturing a second image containing one or more selected items that ... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100171619 | ELECTRONIC ARTICLE SURVEILLANCE DEACTIVATOR USING VISUAL PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR TRIGGERING A method, system and electronic article surveillance tag deactivator detect the presence of an electronic article surveillance tag within a deactivation zone. Video of an item within the deactivation zone is captured. The video is evaluated using a pattern recognition t... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100166311 | DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A digital image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the digital image processing apparatus are provided. The digital image processing apparatus, and associated method, may display on-screen display (OSD) regions which do not overlap a face zone display box ... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100169077 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CORRECTING OCR RESULT Disclosed is a method, system and computer readable recording medium for correcting an OCR result. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for correcting an OCR result, the method including performing character recogniti... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100166310 | METHOD OF ESTABLISHING SKIN COLOR MODEL A method of establishing a skin color model includes the following steps. A human face detecting procedure is performed on an input image, and a human face area in the input image is circled through a selecting window. A skin color model is established by using a Gaussi... | 07/01/2010 |
