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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5657397 | Preprocessing means for use in a pattern classification system A method for recognizing an object by processing reference feature vectors a collection of reference feature vectors is generated; each representing a reference pattern that belongs to one of a plurality of predefined classes. Each class has associated al... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5631982 | System using parallel coordinates for automated line detection in noisy images A system for detecting lines in images using line neighborhoods and a parallel coordinate transformation. The process introduces the concept of line neighborhoods to accommodate the uncertainty in line detection arising from image noise. Because line neig... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5617486 | Continuous reference adaptation in a pattern recognition system A pattern recognition system which continuously adapts reference patterns to more effectively recognize input data from a given source. The input data is converted to a set or series of observed vectors and is compared to a set of Markov Models. The close... | 04/01/1997 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5537488 | Pattern recognition system with statistical classification A pattern recognition system is described. During training, multiple training input patterns from multiple classes of subjects are grouped into clusters within categories by computing correlations between the training patterns and present category definit... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5524065 | Method and apparatus for pattern recognition Pattern recognition system which provides an indication of the confidence with which a candidate is selected for an unknown pattern. The pattern recognition apparatus includes an image data input device, a host for segmenting the image data into unknown p... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5519789 | Image clustering apparatus For determining class mean and covariance in class so as to make distribution parameters of pixels express statistical properties of the object, and for clustering the image stably at high speed, the apparatus has: (a) frame memory storing image composed ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5375175 | Method and apparatus of measuring line structures with an optical microscope by data clustering and classification A method of processing images obtained with a microscope along a line on an object, in which the object, having trenches or lines, is moved in the z direction to form a cloud plot; signals in the z direction are scanned to form a linescan vector; the line... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5359671 | Character-recognition systems and methods with means to measure endpoint features in character bit-maps Character recognition method and system that identifies an input character as being a unique member of a defined character set. Specifically, a character bit-map of an input character is first generated. Thereafter, a character recognition procedure proce... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5347595 | Preprocessing means for use in a pattern classification system A method for preprocessing reference feature vectors representing patterns in order to form, for each selected pattern class, collections of regions. A hierarchy of possibility regions is formed, wherein all reference feature vectors of a pattern class ar... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5325445 | Feature classification using supervised statistical pattern recognition Feature classification using a novel supervised statistical pattern recognition approach is described. A tree-like hierarchical decomposition of n-dimensional feature space is created off-line from an image processing system. The hierarchical tree is crea... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5315668 | Offline text recognition without intraword character segmentation based on two-dimensional low frequency discrete Fourier transforms Image analysis and recognition includes reading text, by digitally scanning a surface, locating the printed material in that digital image, and then recognizing words, phrases, or numbers based on their two dimensional, low frequency Fourier harmonics. On... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5295198 | Pattern identification by analysis of digital words A method of and an apparatus for analyzing multi-bit digital words to identify their source or content. The digital words are converted to multi-bit fields, with each field being a portion of the digital word or corresponding to one or more descriptive pa... | 03/15/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5259039 | Method of separating specific patterns from pattern space and apparatus therefor There is provided a pattern separation apparatus capable of separating patterns of a specific group from a plurality of patterns constituting a plurality of groups present in an n-dimensional pattern space in accordance with simple computational processin... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5247583 | Image segmentation method and apparatus therefor An image processing area is divided into a plurality of small areas which are allowed to overlap one another. One or a plurality of pixels in a region to be segmented and in a region not to be segmented are specified. A representative point of the region ... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5187751 | Clustering system for optical character reader In a clustering system for an optical character reader, feature vectors of character image data to be classified are stored in a first memory. The number of classes, and representative vectors for the respective classes which are previously provided are s... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5181259 | General method of pattern classification using the two domain theory Human beings judge patterns (such as images) by complex mental processes, some of which may not be known, while computing machines extract features. By representing the human judgements with simple measurements and reducing them and the machine extracted ... | 01/19/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5159646 | Method and system for verifying a seal against a stored image An image verification system for verifying whether a sample image corresponds to a reference image registered beforehand. A relationship between the sample and the reference image is stored when the sample image corresponds to the reference image. The sam... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5077807 | Preprocessing means for use in a pattern classification system A method for preprocessing reference feature vectors representing patterns in order to form, for each selected pattern class, collections of regions. A hierarchy of possibility regions is formed, wherein all reference feature vectors of a pattern class ar... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5074673 | Laser-based target discriminator A laser-based target discriminator system for discriminating desired objects from other objects and clutter in an image scene is disclosed. The system is operative to scan a pulsed laser beam a plurality of times across an image area, the scans covering d... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5075896 | Character and phoneme recognition based on probability clustering Prior to character or phoneme recognition, a classifier provides a respective probability list for each of a sequence of sample characters or phonemes, each probability list indicating the respective sample's probability for each character or phoneme type... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5060277 | Pattern classification means using feature vector regions preconstructed from reference data A method for classifying an input feature vector representing an unknown pattern as belonging to one of a set of pre-defined pattern classes, wherein the input feature vector is compared with pre-constructed regions. A hierarchy of possibility regions is ... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5040133 | Adaptive clusterer This invention relates to a technique and system (34) for clustering a set of data points (18) in a data field. Clustering is performed by a set of rules which make no assumptions about the data fields. That is, the number of clusters, the distance betwee... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5034991 | Character recognition method and system Character recognition method and system in which a character indicated in a printed, stamped, carved or other form is two-dimensionally imaged and stored as image data and the stored image data is subjected to an image processing to recognize the characte... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4773099 | Pattern classification means for use in a pattern recognition system A method for identifying unknown input data, such as patterns or characters. In order to classify unknown input characters, first, during a preprocessing phase, large number of reference data is collected and analyzed in order to form "ringed clusters" fo... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4754489 | Means for resolving ambiguities in text based upon character context A method of identifying an object within a set of object candidates includes the steps of: calculating the probability of occurrence of each member of a set of string candidates, wherein each string candidate contains one member of the set of object candi... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4731859 | Multispectral/spatial pattern recognition system A pattern recognition system for use with a two-dimensional image, each point associated with a height and with contributions from various wavelengths of light. The image to be analyzed is first sensed by a sensor and stored in a memory. Signals, read fro... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4658429 | System and method for preparing a recognition dictionary For the preparation of a tree structure recognition dictionary, a feature set at each node of the tree should be the feature giving the largest discrete distribution number. When elements of an object are classified or divided into categories, if the numb... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4418423 | Disparity detection apparatus Responsive to each character field, a word recognition apparatus separates a first train of characters 댑, 댒, . . . n, which are regarded as characters of a first kind, and a second train of characters ... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4292471 | Method of verifying a speaker An improved method of verifying the speaker from whom long term spectral characteristics have been derived during a learning phase. Mean values and distance thresholds have been calculated and stored. Improved recognition is obtained by incorporating into... | 09/29/1981 |
| 3969698 | Cluster storage apparatus for post processing error correction of a character recognition machine A cluster storage apparatus is disclosed for outputting groups of valid alpha words as potential candidates for the correct form of an alpha word misrecognized by a character recognition machine. Groups of alpha words are arranged in the cluster storage a... | 07/13/1976 |
