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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7106896 | ID recognition apparatus and ID recognition sorter system for semiconductor wafer A semiconductor wafer ID recognition apparatus includes an image sensing optical section and recognition processing section. The image sensing optical section reads at least one identification information (ID) marked at an arbitrary position on a semiconductor wafer... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103222 | Pattern discovery in multi-dimensional time series using multi-resolution matching A method discovers patterns in unknown multi-dimensional data. A time-series of the multi-dimensional data is generated and a point cross-distance matrix is constructed by self-correlating the time-series. All minimum cost paths in the point cross-distance matrix ar... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102772 | Method and system for delivery of a facsimile A method of delivering a facsimile, including: providing a printed form for entering a message thereon using a sensing device adapted to read coded data on the form; receiving, in a computer system, interaction data representing interaction of the sensing device wit... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099508 | Document identification device, document definition method and document identification method A plurality of document definition information for identifying documents, and format control information for recognizing a character recorded on a document corresponding to each of the plurality of document definition information are held beforehand, documents targe... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095514 | Image processing system for preventing forgery Conventionally, it is impossible to securely and efficiently implement the judgment of specific images. In order to solve this task, an image processing apparatus according to the present invention is characterized in including an input unit (in these embodiments, t... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095401 | System and method for gesture interface A method for determining a gesture includes determining a change in a background of an image from a plurality of images, determining a object in the image, determining a trajectory of the object through the plurality of images, and classifying a gesture according to... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095334 | Strip LED light assembly for motor vehicle A light emitting diode (LED) warning signal light, the warning signal light comprising a plurality of light sources constructed and arranged with a reflector or cullminator, the LED light source being in electrical communication with a controller and a power supply,... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7093197 | Method, apparatus, and program for processing signature, and storage medium therefor A signature processing method determines, when displaying an input signature on a display unit, whether a predetermined condition is satisfied. When it is determined that the predetermined condition is satisfied, the signature on the display unit is displayed in a m... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092870 | System and method for managing a textual archive using semantic units A system and method for indexing and searching textual archives using semantic units such as syllables and morphemes. In one aspect, a system for indexing a textual archive comprises an AHR (automatic handwriting recognition) system and/or OCR (optical character rec... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092568 | Limiting storage or transmission of visual information using optical character recognition A method carried out at a device (700), of limiting visual information that can be stored or transmitted captures a visual image (408). Whenever a control signal is detected (412) at the device (700), an optical symbol recognition of the ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088860 | Dynamically reconfigurable signal processing circuit, pattern recognition apparatus, and image processing apparatus A plurality of signal processing functions are achieved with the same arithmetic processing circuit by controlling wiring arrangements or signal modulation in accordance with a predetermined arrangement control signal that is output based on circuit arrangement info... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088859 | Apparatus for processing machine-readable code printed on print medium together with human-readable information An information processing system which processes machine-readable code information which is printed, together with human-readable information, on a print medium. The apparatus includes a reading unit which reads the machine-readable code information, a decoding unit... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085423 | Apparatus and method for filing and reproducing images The invention provides a data filing device for storing an original image as one electronic file by not uniformly encoding but in different systems for each of parts in the original image. The data filing device includes an analyzer for analyzing a layout of a const... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085415 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus comprises a line buffer unit which stores binary image data, the binary image data being divided into a plurality of line portion data, each line portion data having a fixed length. Pattern matching units are connected in parallel with the... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085437 | Document modification apparatus and image processing apparatus Automatic region extracting means (2) extracts rectangle regions having attributes of “character”, “photograph”, “table”, “ruled line”, “frame” from input image data through Image input means (1) and stores the information of the ex... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082447 | Method and apparatus for archive data validation in an archive system A method and apparatus for validation of archived data that includes one or more servers or data sources, an archive server, and one or more storage subsystems. Data is received from the data source and a verification code is generated on the data using a verificati... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082382 | System for producing high-resolution, real-time synthetic meteorological conditions for a specified location Methods and articles of manufacture for estimating or deriving weather observations/conditions for any given location using observed weather conditions from neighboring locations, radar data, lightning data, satellite imagery, etc. An initial estimate of weather con... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082226 | Image data reproduction method A duplicated part of identical images in an encoded image data master is judged to be selected. Image data to be reused is generated by adding a storage instruction to encoded image data of the duplicated part of the first identical image, and converting encoded ima... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081975 | Information input device The present invention employs an instruction button for inputting an instruction to simultaneously executing registration, in a full-text-search database, of a document scanned by one scanning operation and subjected to OCR processing, and registration of the docume... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7080930 | LED warning signal light and row of LED's A light emitting diode (LED) warning signal light, the warning signal light comprising a plurality of light sources constructed and arranged with a reflector or cullminator, the LED light source being in electrical communication with a controller and a power supply,... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079681 | Image quality analysis method and system for a display device using fractal dimension An image quality analysis method and an image quality analysis system for a display device are provided. The image quality analysis method for a display device includes the steps of outputting an image pattern for analysis of an image quality of the display device, ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076695 | System and methods for adaptive threshold determination for performance metrics A system and method for dynamically generating alarm thresholds for performance metrics, and for applying those thresholds to generate alarms is described. Statistical methods are used to generate one or more thresholds for metrics that may not fit a Gaussian or nor... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076102 | Video monitoring system employing hierarchical hidden markov model (HMM) event learning and classification A method and apparatus are disclosed for automatically learning and identifying events in image data using hierarchical HMMs to define and detect one or more events. The hierarchical HMMs include multiple paths that encompass variations of the same event. Hierarchic... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076096 | Recognizing a print inhibit image pattern using image data converted for fast recognition Disclosed is an image processing device capable of recognizing a specific image such as an image which is prohibited from printing at high speed and, moreover, without being influenced by an image forming process. A drawing command analysis unit analyzes a drawing c... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076049 | Method of designing a telecommunications call center interface A method is provided for designing an interface system. The method includes receiving a call from a customer at a call center, and logging a reason the customer is calling the call center. Subsequently, reasons from multiple customers are collected and categorized i... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072493 | Robust and stealthy video watermarking into regions of successive frames A technology is described herein for the protection of rights in the content of a video sequence. In one example the technology embeds an information pattern in one or more regions of a video signal. A region includes a plurality of successive frames. The example do... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072027 | Exposure apparatus, method of controlling same, and method of manufacturing devices A scanning exposure apparatus includes a projection optical system which projects a pattern formed on a mask onto an object, a stage which holds an object and moves in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the projection optical system, a measurement syste... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069453 | Paper document satchels A paper document satchel is an ordinary piece of paper that functions as a fully functional document token repository by virtue of the data encoded in printed marks on the page. The paper document satchel provides a portable and functional way to transfer document, ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068842 | System and method for object identification and behavior characterization using video analysis In general, the present invention is directed to systems and methods for finding the position and shape of an object using video. The invention includes a system with a video camera coupled to a computer in which the computer is configured to automatically provide o... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064674 | Replaceable LED modules A modular warning signal light system comprising at least one support. The at least one support having at least one module receiving port. The module receiving ports constructed and arranged to removably receive the support engagement member of a module. Each module... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062633 | Conditional vector arithmetic method and conditional vector arithmetic unit It is decided whether a first source data from the memory 101 is a data which is to be subjected to arithmetic or not by a state flag detection means 150, the result of the decision is retained as a state flag, and it is decided by a condition decision... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062090 | Writing guide for a free-form document editor Displaying a writing guide for a free-form document editor by detecting electronic ink, classifying the detected ink as corresponding to handwriting or a drawing, and displaying a handwriting guide or a drawing guide in response to classifying the detected ink as ha... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062083 | Image retrieval method based on combination of color and texture features An image retrieval method with improved performance in which a data image similar to a query image is retrieved by appropriately combining color and texture features. The method for retrieving a data image similar to a query image in an image database containing a p... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061401 | Method and apparatus for detecting a flight obstacle An apparatus for and a method of detecting a flight obstacle (28, 30, 32, 34) in the surroundings (50) of an aircraft (4), in particular for collision warning purposes, wherein images of the surroundings (50) are recorded, the flight obst... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062089 | Handwritten character input assistant apparatus and method A handwritten character pattern is input, a coordinate of a rightmost end or a lowermost end of the input handwritten character pattern is detected, a predetermined interval value is added to the coordinate to calculate a coordinate of a position for displaying a bl... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058573 | Speech recognition system to selectively utilize different speech recognition techniques over multiple speech recognition passes Method and apparatus for multi-pass speech recognition. An input device receives spoken input. A processor performs a first pass speech recognition technique on the spoken input and forms first pass results. The first pass results include a number of alternative spe... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057607 | Application-independent text entry for touch-sensitive display A user interface method and apparatus for an electronic device operates by detecting (108) a stroke of a touch sensitive display (170) forming a part of the electronic device. The stroke is categorized (116) as one of a swish type stroke and a n... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054793 | Device and method for generating a virtual model of an installation The invention relates to a method and a device for generating a virtual installation model (2) as an image of a real installation (1). As a database therefor, digital picture data (4) representing pictures of a real installation (1) on th... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054492 | Fast regular shaped pattern searching An accumulation method for fast pattern search can accurately locate regular shaped patterns of interest. The method can be used for invariant search to match patterns of interest in images where the searched pattern varies in size or orientation or aspect ratio, wh... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054487 | Controlling and electronic device An electronic device (200), such as a computer, a mobile phone or a PDA, is controlled by an arrangement comprising a handheld input unit (300), which records images and converts these to text strings comprising character sequences. The text strings re... | 05/30/2006 |
