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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180155 | Decoding method for a two dimensional dot code A decoding method for a two dimensional dot code includes the steps of defining coordinates of boundary dots in the two dimensional dot code, performing extrapolation and interpolation according to the coordinates of the boundary dots to create coordinates of a plur... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175388 | Recognizing text at multiple orientations Systems, methods, and apparatus, including software tangibly stored on a computer readable medium, involve identifying text in an electronic document. An electronic document that includes an image object is received. In a first region of the image object, a first se... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175387 | Image similarity detection using approximate pattern matching Two images are compared to determine how similar they are. First, a process normalizes each image, then horizontal and vertical byte sequences are derived from each image. A similarity formula is used to obtain a similarity value that represents the similarity betwe... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170339 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method For each image sensing device, an index in a sensed image is recognized, and layout information of the recognized index in a coordinate system based on an image sensing device that has acquired the sensed image is calculated. Index information including identificati... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165397 | Identifying descriptor for person or object in an image A device and method for processing an image to create appearance and shape labeled images of a person or object captured within the image. The appearance and shape labeled images are unique properties of the person or object and can be used to re-identify the person... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155446 | Characterizing dynamic regions of digital media data A media analysis tool is provided for defining dynamic regions of a digital media segment. The dynamic regions may contain at least part of a visible feature of the segment. Correlation of the defined regions with external data quantifying attention of a subject vie... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156115 | Document-based networking with mixed media reality A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150157 | Card shuffler with card rank and value reading capability using CMOS sensor A device for forming a random set of playing cards comprises a card in-feed area, a shuffling system, a card removal area, and a card reading system located within the device, the card reading system employing a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150158 | Unique sensing system and apparatus for reading playing cards A sensing apparatus is provided for the determination of at least one of rank or suit of a playing card. The sensing apparatus includes an imaging array capable of sensing at least an area of a playing card that represents rank and or suit. A position sensor is prov... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144990 | Translation and display of text in picture A method performed by a mobile terminal may include receiving an image that includes text, translating the text into another language and superimposing and displaying the translated text over the received image. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135217 | Method for optimized camera position finding for system with optical character recognition The present invention relates to a method for aligning a camera sensor to significant data which is text or barcode data to be recognized comprising the steps of:—capturing an image of the significant data by means of the camera sensor; —detecting a predominant ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131079 | Pedestrian detection device and pedestrian detection method A near-infrared night vision device to which a pedestrian detection device is applied includes a near-infrared projector, a near-infrared camera, a display and an ECU. By executing programs, the ECU constitutes a pedestrian candidate extraction portion and a determi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126272 | Methods combining multiple frames of image data In one embodiment a document authentication station, for use with passports or the like, includes a 2D image sensor (e.g., CCD- or CMOS-based video camera), and a computer device. The image sensor produces produce image data corresponding to a presented document. Fr... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121410 | System, apparatus, and method for providing illegal use research service for image data, and system, apparatus, and method for providing proper use research service for image data In a system for providing an illegal use research service for image data, the image data received from a terminal apparatus is registered as a research subject, a research condition for research whether or not the image data being registered is illegally used by a W... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121411 | Linear transformation matrix calculating apparatus, method thereof and program thereof A linear transformation matrix calculating apparatus linearly transforms a plurality of dictionary subspaces which belong to respective categories by a linear transformation matrix respectively, selects a plurality of sets of two dictionary subspaces from the plural... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116566 | Unknown pattern set recognition A pattern recognition system compares a set of unlabeled images (or other patterns) having a variation of state in a set-by-set comparison with individual data sets of multiple labeled images (or other patterns) also having a variation of state. The individual data ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116567 | Digitizing documents Techniques for performing page verification of a document are provided. The techniques include performing a recognition technique on a document to recognize one or more objects in the document, excluding the one or more recognized objects from the document, and perf... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116565 | Collation device and collation method for authenticating users A reading unit supplies card information that has been read from a card to a management unit by way of a read-out unit. The management unit assigns a high order of priority to card information that has been newly read and stores the card information to which this or... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111920 | Closed-loop integrity monitor Systems and methods for operating an avionics component to a level of certification. Steps include: receiving and sending data to a data monitor and an integrity monitor, the data monitor operating at a first level of certification and the integrity monitor operatin... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111921 | Method and apparatus for performing model-based OPC for pattern decomposed features A method for decomposing a target circuit pattern containing features to be imaged into multiple patterns. The process includes the steps of separating the features to be printed into a first pattern and a second pattern; performing a first optical proximity correct... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107729 | Method for improving character outlines using multiple alignment zones A method aligns a character to a sampling grid of an image, where an outline of the character is specified by input pen commands. Points and contours of the input pen commands are determined. An orientation of each contour is determined. A first directed acyclic gra... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107728 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing system, computer program and recording medium An image processing apparatus includes a feature point calculating section for extracting two or more connected components from a document image of interest and calculating the feature point from the centroid defined in each of the connected components, a features c... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103099 | Method and system for recognizing characters and character groups in electronically represented text A system and method for automatically recognizing words or phrases in text. ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098935 | Apparatus and method for recognizing pattern data in a mobile terminal Provided is an improved apparatus and method for recognizing pattern data. The method including extracting a high frequency component with Y data from pattern data sensed through a camera equipped in a mobile station to more clearly recognize edge portions. The high... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098936 | Method and apparatus for detecting objects in an image A method of detecting generally rectangular objects in an image comprises determining candidate rectangles in the image based on detected corners in the image, ranking the candidate rectangles on the basis of a set of differentiating factors and detecting objects in... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8081823 | Segmenting a string using similarity values Disclosed are systems and methods for segmenting a string comprised of one or more string segments using similarity values. In embodiments, each string segment may contain at least a variation of a marker string that may be used to separate string segments in the st... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081822 | System and method for sensing a feature of an object in an interactive video display Embodiments of the present invention include a method for processing captured image information in an interactive video display system. The method includes accessing a region of a vision image. The method further includes comparing the region of the vision image to ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077970 | Operation estimating apparatus and related article of manufacture An operation estimating apparatus includes an image obtaining unit, a human body feature point specifying unit, and an operation estimating unit. The image obtaining unit repeatedly obtains images. The human body feature point specifying unit specifies a predetermin... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077972 | 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 ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077971 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program This invention generates a digital document by applying character recognition to character images in a document image, and rendering the character recognition result on the document image in a transparent color. This digital document allows to specify a part corresp... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073257 | 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. ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073256 | Image processing apparatus and method therefor Replacement target image data and image data for replacement are stored, character images of the replacement target image data and character images of the image data for replacement are extracted, and character recognition is performed for each page on character str... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064698 | Fixed form image reading apparatus and fixed form image reading method using the same An fixed form image reading apparatus includes an imaging portion for taking an image of a fixed form image formed in accordance with a predetermined rule so as to deliver image data, a luminance detecting portion that detects an accumulated value of luminance of a ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064697 | Laplacian principal components analysis (LPCA) Systems and methods perform Laplacian Principal Components Analysis (LPCA). In one implementation, an exemplary system receives multidimensional data and reduces dimensionality of the data by locally optimizing a scatter of each local sample of the data. The optimiz... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064699 | Method and device for ascertaining feature vectors from a signal A signal is used to form intermediate feature vectors which are subjected to high-pass filtering. The high-pass-filtered intermediate feature vectors have a respective prescribed addition feature vector added to them. ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064700 | Method and system for character recognition Character recognition is described. In one embodiment, it may use matched sequences rather than character shape to determine a computer-legible result. ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064696 | Geometric parsing of mathematical expressions A processing device may parse a group of strokes representing a mathematical expression. The group of strokes may be examined to determine whether the group of strokes satisfies any of a finite set of rules. When the group of strokes, included in a region, satisfies... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059897 | Method for automatically performing an image processing function on an electronic device A method (400) for automatically performing a plurality of image processing functions on an electronic device (100) by providing a plurality of image processing option keys (405) including a first image processing option key and a second image p... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059898 | Method and system for learning object recognition in images In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method for learning object recognition in an image is provided. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing a training set of standa... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045802 | End of program pattern detector Systems and methods are set forth for detecting an end of program pattern. More specifically, systems and methods are set forth for recognizing and acting upon sequential image data that contains an end of program pattern. ... | 10/25/2011 |
