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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5588074 | Data recognition equipment and method using partial pattern recognition A data recognition equipment includes an input device for inputting pattern data, and a selection device which recognizes a partial pattern data in the input pattern data and selects a candidate pattern for pattern recognition of the input pattern data. T... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5574799 | Method and system for automated detection of microcalcification clusters in mammograms The invention is a novel method for automated detection of objects in images. One specific use is to detect malignant microcalcification clusters in mammograms. The method operates by forming a contour plot of the image (mammogram), the object (microcalci... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5572596 | Automated, non-invasive iris recognition system and method Iris recognition is achieved by (1) iris acquisition that permits a user to self-position his or her eye into an imager's field of view without the need for any physical contact, (2) spatially locating the data defining that portion of a digitized video i... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5566249 | Apparatus for detecting bubbles in coverslip adhesive The detection of bubbles in coverslip adhesive. Bubbles in coverslip adhesive may span large areas of the coverslip. An automated cytology system acquires 4 x gray scale images of the slide. Image conditioning is then performed. The conditioned gray scale... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5555320 | Pattern recognition system with improved recognition rate using nonlinear transformation A pattern recognition system capable of handling the non-Gaussian feature vector distribution in the feature vector space such that the recognition rate can be improved while using the pattern matching based on the assumption of the Gaussian feature vecto... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5555556 | Method and apparatus for document segmentation by background analysis A system for extracting document elements from a document using major white regions includes an input port for inputting a signal representing the document image, a connected component generator for generating connected components from the document image,... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5550638 | Feature detection with enhanced edge discrimination An image processing apparatus includes a circuit for inputting a plurality of color component signals of a subtractive color system, a circuit for detecting a minimum value signal of the color component signals input by the input means, a circuit for emph... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5550931 | Automatic handwriting recognition using both static and dynamic parameters Methods and apparatus are disclosed for recognizing handwritten characters in response to an input signal from a handwriting transducer. A feature extraction and reduction procedure is disclosed that relies on static or shape information, wherein the temp... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5546475 | Produce recognition system The present system and apparatus uses image processing to recognize objects within a scene. The system includes an illumination source for illuminating the scene. By controlling the illumination source, an image processing system can take a first digitize... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5544257 | Continuous parameter hidden Markov model approach to automatic handwriting recognition A computer-based system and method for recognizing handwriting. The present invention includes a preprocessor, a front end, and a modeling component. The present invention operates as follows. First, the present invention identifies the lexemes for all ch... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5539523 | Image forming device making color corrections on stored image data Any specific color (e.g., flesh-color, sky-blue and so on) is determined for its area on an original color image and corrected by the use of a matrix color correcting factor to assure a high level of reproduction of that color. Any specific color, for exa... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5539839 | Automatic handwriting recognition using both static and dynamic parameters Methods and apparatus are disclosed for recognizing handwritten characters in response to an input signal from a handwriting transducer. A feature extraction and reduction procedure is disclosed that relies on static or shape information, wherein the temp... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5517578 | Method and apparatus for grouping and manipulating electronic representations of handwriting, printing and drawings A note taking system that integrates word-processing functionality and computerized drawing functionality for processing ink strokes comprises novel methods that provide this functionality such as: a method for modeless operation of the note taking system... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5502777 | Method and apparatus for recognizing table and figure having many lateral and longitudinal lines There is disclosed method and apparatus for recognizing a table and a figure drawn in a recognized document even though there are many intersections formed on each of lateral and longitudinal lines drawn in the figure. Figures and tables drawn in the reco... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5497430 | Method and apparatus for image recognition using invariant feature signals A method of operating an image recognition system including providing a neural network including a plurality of input neurons, a plurality of output neurons and an interconnection weight matrix; providing a display including an indicator; initializing the... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5493539 | Two-stage detection and discrimination system for side scan sonar equipment An automatic method for finding mines in side scan sonar images using a two-stage detection/discrimination process is provided. This method improves the discrimination process by specialized processing of regions of interest found in the detection process... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5490233 | Method and apparatus for reducing correlated errors in subband coding systems with quantizers A method and apparatus for reducing correlated errors in subband coding systems with quantizers is disclosed. A subband coding system comprises a plurality of subband analysis filters to divide the frequency spectrum of the input signal into subbands, ind... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5479523 | Constructing classification weights matrices for pattern recognition systems using reduced element feature subsets Methods and apparatus for constructing a classification weights matrix for a pattern recognition system are provided which enable large system feature sets to be reduced and yield at least the same level of performance achieved using the large feature set... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5467411 | System with approximation mechanism for recognizing graphical elements in a drawing A drawing recognition system is disclosed which recognizes even a complex low-quality drawing containing overlapping charts, or many blurs or discontinuations with less operations. The system includes both a program for approximating a graphical object to... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5465084 | Method to provide security for a computer and a device therefor A method for controlling access to an area or an object consisting of storing in a memory library one or more predefined patterns of computer generated elements consisting of alphanumeric characters, symbols, and/or colors which can authorize access where... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5465308 | Pattern recognition system A method and apparatus under software control for pattern recognition utilizes a neural network implementation to recognize two dimensional input images which are sufficiently similar to a database of previously stored two dimensional images. Images are f... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5465157 | Recording apparatus with image modification for increased image resolution An information recording apparatus capable of contour smoothing by modifying the data of an object pixel based on pixel data in a surrounding area. There is employed a wide reference area, for example 11×9 pixels, divided into plural reference areas, all... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5444791 | Moving body recognition apparatus A moving body recognition apparatus which recognizes a shape and movement of an object moving in relation to an image input unit by extracting feature points, e.g. a peak of the object and a boundary of color, each in said images captured at a plurality o... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5442716 | Method and apparatus for adaptive learning type general purpose image measurement and recognition An adaptive learning type general purpose image measurement and recognition method includes the steps of extracting a large number of basic initial features having values which are invariant to parallel displacement of an object to be caught in an image f... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5436981 | Image processing method, and apparatus therefor A command identifying circuit separates entered image information into a bitmap command representing a line image and an image command representing a half-tone image. A data separating circuit separates layout information, bitmap data and paint-tone data ... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5432864 | Identification card verification system The present invention provides apparatus and method for verifying the identity of a person by comparing that person's face (or selected facial features) with an image generated using data stored on an identification card, badge, tag or other escort memory... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5414474 | Moving body recognition apparatus Apparatus which recognizes a shape and movement of a moving body based on position data of feature points in an image of the moving body in an orthogonal projection image of the moving body. The moving body recognition apparatus includes a feature point p... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5392364 | Object inspection method employing selection of discerning features using mahalanobis distances A method for discerning whether an object to be inspected is acceptable or not is based on feature values with respect to a binary-coded image of the object. The method includes the steps of coding image data of the object into binary digits to obtain the... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5373566 | Neural network-based diacritical marker recognition system and method A diacritical marker recognition system and method recognizes diacritical markers in a character image based upon an analysis by a neural network of the portion of the character image most likely to contain a diacritical marker. Once the neural network de... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5369715 | Optical character recognition system A histogram is prepared using the heights of characters in an input alphanumeric character image data set. Based on this histogram, reference line characters are detected from the character row. The upper and lower extracting ordinates of each character i... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5291563 | Method and apparatus for detection of target object with improved robustness An object detection system and a state transition detection system capable of realizing the improved robustness, general applicability, and customizability. In the system, features for the target image are calculated, where the features including at least... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5287275 | Image recognition apparatus and method for recognizing a pattern within an image A learning pattern is classified into a plurality of patterns by a classifying means. The result of the classification, as well as the representative feature quantity calculated by the representative feature quantity operating unit, are stored in a dictio... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5274714 | Method and apparatus for determining and organizing feature vectors for neural network recognition A pattern recognition method and apparatus utilizes a neural network to recognize input images which are sufficiently similar to a database of previously stored images. Images are first processed and subjected to a Fourier transform which yields a power s... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5264942 | Image processing system using run-length encoding of filtered data and its repetition count With an image processing system, to-be-processed image data is run length coded. The pattern type of 1×M pixels of each row of the to-be-processed image data and a repetition count of the 1×M pixel pattern in the row direction are obtained. The run-leng... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5263097 | Parameter normalized features for classification procedures, systems and methods This application discloses a method for distinguishing targets from clutter, comprising the steps of inputting data, extracting feature information from said data, extracting parameter information from said data, normalizing said features with said parame... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5239593 | Optical pattern recognition using detector and locator neural networks A system for performing optical pattern recognition includes a first detector neural network for detecting the presence of a particular optical pattern in an input image and a second locator neural network for locating and/or removing the particular optic... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5239594 | Self-organizing pattern classification neural network system A self-organizing pattern classification neural network system includes means for receiving incoming pattern of signals that were processed by feature extractors that extract feature vectors from the incoming signal. These feature vectors correspond to in... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5161204 | Apparatus for generating a feature matrix based on normalized out-class and in-class variation matrices A method and apparatus under software control for pattern recognition utilizes a neural network implementation to recognize two dimensional input images which are sufficiently similar to a database of previously stored two dimensional images. Images are f... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5136659 | Intelligent coding system for picture signal An intelligent coding system for a picture signal is disclosed, in which a feature picture representing features of a picture is produced on the basis of an input picture signal, information of the position and the shape of each element forming the pictur... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5134661 | Method of capture and analysis of digitized image data Computer programs for capture and analysis of digitized image data signals comprising frame, scan line and digitizer stripe numbers, and edge-detection or bright-spot data relating to images in a field of interest, which includes the steps of converting t... | 07/28/1992 |
