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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6587576 | Method of quantifying the quality of a gray scale image of a document and an apparatus therefor A method of processing a document comprises the steps of (a) scanning a document to obtain gray scale image data associated with the document, (b) generating a two-dimensional histogram based upon the gray scale image data obtained in step (a), (c) applyi... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6567552 | Image processing method and apparatus Stroke information from pen-down to pen-up being one unit is grouped automatically so that editing thereafter can be performed efficiently. Grouping of stroke information is determined in accordance with a predetermined rule of grouping each time stroke i... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6563952 | Method and apparatus for classification of high dimensional data The present invention is an apparatus and method for classifying high-dimensional sparse datasets. A raw data training set is flattened by converting it from categorical representation to a boolean representation. The flattened data is then used to build ... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6542635 | Method for document comparison and classification using document image layout Document type comparison and classification using layout classification is accomplished by first segmenting a document page into blocks of text and white space. A grid of rows and columns, forming bins, is created on the page to intersect the blocks. Layo... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6539115 | Pattern recognition device for performing classification using a candidate table and method thereof The value of a reference feature vector calculated from a feature vector of an input pattern is transformed into a candidate category set, by a mapping described in a candidate table. Then, pattern recognition is performed using the candidate category set... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535639 | Automatic video summarization using a measure of shot importance and a frame-packing method A measure of importance is calculated for segmented parts of a video. The segmented parts are determined by segmenting the video into component shots and then merging by iteration the component shots based on similarity or other factors. Segmentation may ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6535640 | Signal analysis system and method for determining a closest vector from a vector collection to an input signal A signal analysis system/method, for identifying the closest vector in a vector collection to a given input signal vector, comprising an input, a memory, and a processing unit. The memory stores a collection of vectors, and a table of mutual distances bet... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6512850 | Method of and apparatus for identifying subsets of interrelated image objects from a set of image objects In one example given, a query for identifying interrelationships between image objects of a set of image objects is received from an input device. Each of a plurality of similarity values between all image objects of the set is compared with threshold cri... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6512846 | Determining orientation of images containing blue sky A method, image recognition system, computer program, etc., for determining image orientation. The invention classifies potential sky pixels in the image by color, identifies spatially contiguous regions of the potential sky pixels, identifies actual sky ... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6507678 | Apparatus and method for retrieving character string based on classification of character A character string retrieval apparatus classifies a plurality of characters following a prefix of a registration character string into a plurality of groups, and registers those following characters in an array structure using a different displacement amo... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6487311 | OCR-based image compression A method for compressing a digitized image of a document using optical character recognition (OCR). The method includes performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the digitized image, identifying, based, at least in part, on a result of the perform... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6480627 | Image classification using evolved parameters An evolutionary algorithm evolves alternative architectures and parameters for an image classification system. In a preferred embodiment, a learning system is employed, and during the training period of the learning system, the architecture of the learnin... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6463173 | System and method for histogram-based image contrast enhancement A method of operating a computer to produce contrast enhanced digital images commences with the step of producing a histogram of having a first axis corresponding to a measurable property (e.g., luminance) and a second axis corresponding to a count of pix... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6459808 | Method for inferring target paths from related cue paths A method infers a target path in a target system from a cue path. The method learns a target state machine, target probability density functions and an occupancy matrix of the state machine from training target paths. Cue probability density functions are... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6453246 | System, method, and computer program product for representing proximity data in a multi-dimensional space A system, method and computer program product for representing precise or imprecise measurements of similarity/dissimilarity (relationships) between objects as distances between points in a multi-dimensional space that represents the objects. Self-organiz... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6446068 | System and method of finding near neighbors in large metric space databases The present invention comprises a computer-implemented method of searching large metric space databases. It allows fast near neighbor searches in databases where the data elements in the database are high dimensional and each data element represents a poi... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6438268 | Vector quantization codebook generation method A data compression system using vector quantization utilises a codebook or index tables constructed by finding a small set of points in an n-dimensional space which are representative of a much larger population. The space is partitioned such that the int... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434272 | System and method for image processing The invention relates to a system and a procedure for image processing. The system comprises a data communication network (1) which serves as a channel for the transmission of the image being processed, digitized in an electronic form of representation, a... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6430307 | Feature extraction system and face image recognition system A feature extraction and pattern collation system for statistically analyzing a set of samples of feature vectors to calculate a feature being an index for a pattern identification, which is capable of identifying confusing data with a high robustness. In... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6411724 | Using meta-descriptors to represent multimedia information Multimedia information retrieval is performed using meta-descriptors in addition to descriptors. A "descriptor" is a representation of a feature, a "feature" being a distinctive characteristic of multimedia information, while a "meta-descriptor" is inform... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6404925 | Methods and apparatuses for segmenting an audio-visual recording using image similarity searching and audio speaker recognition Methods for segmenting audio-video recording of meetings containing slide presentations by one or more speakers are described. These segments serve as indexes into the recorded meeting. If an agenda is provided for the meeting, these segments can be label... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6393054 | System and method for automatically detecting shot boundary and key frame from a compressed video data A system for detecting shot boundary in a compressed video data without decompression includes a difference detector that detects content difference between frames. When the difference detector determines that a first content difference between a current ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6389169 | Intelligent systems and methods for processing image data based upon anticipated regions of visual interest Systems and methods for performing intelligent image processing. Image processing systems and methods in accordance with the present invention may select algorithms for processing collections of images by comparing algorithmic region of interest (aROI) da... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6345119 | Handwritten character recognition apparatus and method using a clustering algorithm For a plurality of handwritten characters extracted from an input image, a character category for each character is first determined by a character recognition process. Second, according to a clustering process, similarity levels of character-forms among ... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6337927 | Approximated invariant method for pattern detection A system and a method for classifying input vectors into one of two classes, a target class and a non-target class, utilize iterative rejection stages to first label the input vectors that belong in the non-target class in order to identify the remaining ... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6333994 | Spatial sorting and formatting for handwriting recognition Systems and methods for reordering unconstrained handwriting data using both spatial and temporal interrelationships prior to recognition, and for spatially organizing and formatting machine recognized transcription results. The present invention allows a... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6307965 | System and method for detecting clusters of information A system and method are provided to analyze information stored in a computer data base by detecting clusters of related or correlated data values. Data values stored in the data base represent a set of objects. A data value is stored in the data base as a... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6304675 | Visual cluster analysis and pattern recognition methods A method of clustering using a novel template to define a region of influence. Using neighboring approximation methods, computation times can be significantly reduced. The template and method are applicable and improve pattern recognition techniques.... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6275611 | Handwriting recognition device, method and alphabet, with strokes grouped into stroke sub-structures A method of representing handwriting which includes receiving a pen input, for example at a digitizer (10), segmenting the input into strokes (13), grouping the strokes into stroke sub-structures (14) and quantizing the stroke sub-structures according to ... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6272250 | Color clustering for scene change detection and object tracking in video sequences Pixel data forming an image is clustered into groups of data of similar color. Pixels of approximately the same color form one cluster. A vigilance parameter determines how many clusters are derived and how wide a range of colors are included in a cluster... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6263088 | System and method for tracking movement of objects in a scene A system and method for tracking movement of objects, such as people, through a scene. A background image comprising image information representing a background of the scene is generated. Image information for a video frame is compared with image informat... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6242273 | Fractal filter applied to a contamination-free manufacturing signal to improve signal-to-noise ratios A method is provided for manufacturing, the method including processing a workpiece in a processing step and detecting defect data after the processing of the workpiece in the processing step has begun. The method also includes filtering the defect data u... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6229918 | System and method for automatically detecting clusters of data points within a data space The present invention is embodied in a system and method for automatically detecting desired clusters within a data space with a radial spanning device. The radial spanning system and method finds, within a data space, connected clusters or "blobs" define... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6188786 | Image processing apparatus that determines an area in an image based on color information An image processing apparatus including a color-information obtaining device which obtains color information relating to a color of a target-area picture-element group consisting of a plurality of picture elements belonging to a target area as one of a pl... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6184792 | Early fire detection method and apparatus The present invention provides a method and apparatus for detecting fire in a monitored area. In a preferred embodiment, this method is seen to comprise the steps of: (1) capturing video images of the monitored area in the form of two-dimensional bitmaps ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6173275 | Representation and retrieval of images using context vectors derived from image information elements Image features are generated by performing wavelet transformations at sample points on images stored in electronic form. Multiple wavelet transformations at a point are combined to form an image feature vector. A prototypical set of feature vectors, or at... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6141443 | Character extraction apparatus, dictionary production apparatus, and character recognition apparatus using both apparatuses A character extraction apparatus is provided for extracting character data for each character from a text image which is represented by first pixels corresponding to character images and second pixels corresponding to background images. The character extr... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6137911 | Test classification system and method Documents are classified into one or more clusters corresponding to predefined classification categories by building a knowledge base comprising matrices of vectors which indicate the significance of terms within a corpus of text formed by the documents a... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6134344 | Method and apparatus for improving the efficiency of support vector machines A method and apparatus is described for improving the efficiency of any machine that uses an algorithm that maps to a higher dimensional space in which a given set of vectors is used in a test phase. In particular, reduced set vectors are used. These redu... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6128410 | Pattern matching apparatus and method that considers distance and direction An apparatus and method for matching sets of patterns. The apparatus matches an input pattern with reference patterns by extracting feature points of the input pattern to obtain a feature vector, and compares the feature vector of the input pattern with p... | 10/03/2000 |
