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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5054102 | Self-centering character stroke thickening for optical character recognition In an optical character recognition system, character strokes are automatically enhanced prior to processing by matching the character bit map with a set of templates. Each template has a stripe of thickness W composed of binary ones surrounded by zeroes ... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5054099 | Binary image reduction method A binary image reduction method for reducing a binary original picture at a conversion ratio x smaller than 1 in a horizontal direction and at a conversion ratio y smaller than 1 in a vertical direction to obtain a conv... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5018211 | System for detecting and analyzing rounded objects A system is described which determines the characteristics of a substantially rounded feature, such as via hole in a printed circuit board. The system includes an image scanner for providing a serial flow of a raster scan image of pixels which represent t... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4949390 | Interconnect verification using serial neighborhood processors A serial data image processing system is described whereby interconnect artwork for electronic component manufacturing is scanned by a 1×n CCD image pickup element and converted into serial digital data. The serial digital data representing the original ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4931953 | Character pattern generation method and system therefor A line thickening method and system therefor, which holds skeleton line data of characters consisting of the kinds of lines relative to the types of shapes of lines comprising a character and sequence of coordinates of a plurality of points providing the ... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4922332 | Method of and apparatus for generating tint pattern data An original image including a line area and image areas separated from each other across the line area is subjected to a thinning process, whereby an iamge (10a) including a thinned line area (1a) and enlarged image areas (2a, 3a, 4a) is obtained. The enl... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4701961 | Character identifying apparatus A character identifying device generates a core bit matrix and a mask bit matrix for each reference character pattern scanned by a television camera or like device. The two matrices represent binary coded representation of a reference character pattern at... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4698843 | Method for compensating for void-defects in images A multistage pyramid analyzer, modified to include extrapolation of the input to each stage, together with a pyramid synthesizer, may be used for filling in one or more void defects in an image to provide a natural looking processed image.... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4674126 | Image signal processing apparatus An image signal processing apparatus has a CCD for reading an image, a peak detector circuit for detecting a peak value of changes in an analog image signal received from the CCD, a slice level memory circuit for storing a fixed slice level, a comparator,... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4665441 | Method and system for line-thinning in electronic image processing To achieve high speed line-thinning, an electronic picture to be processed is divided into sections, and the scanning for line-thinning is performed for each section. If no point removal is performed in the scanning of a section, the line-thinning is comp... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4601002 | Digital technique for constructing variable width lines A method for digitally constructing variable width cartographic lines, the invention provides an algorithm for generating symbolized lines using multiply-stroked centerline data. The algorithm allows generation of software which utilizes trigonometric fun... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4574357 | Real time character thinning system A system for providing a video output signal representing a thinned image from digitized video input signals representing discrete picture elements (pixels) of a scanned image, comprising convolver means for identifying those pixels which are to be retain... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4561106 | Character recognition process and apparatus Disclosed herein is a character recognition process which extracts white regions surrounded by strokes of character pattern information and recognizes characters by determining the directions in which said white regions are opened. The process is provided... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4539704 | Image thinning process A process for thinning an image, comprising the steps of defining an image in terms of a plurality of discrete picture elements (pixels), convolving each horizontal string of pixels of the image with itself shifted a predetermined number of pixels, weight... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4520505 | Character reading device In a system for identifying hand-written characters, the read character is binary-coded with a high threshold value and a low threshold value, picture elements whose density levels are between the high and low threshold values are subjected to thinning, a... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4513442 | Method for locating and circumscribing text areas on a master which may contain text, graphics and/or image areas A method for locating and circumscribing text areas on a master which may contain text, graphics and/or image areas employs the steps of optoelectronically scanning the master, digitizing the analog signals obtained from the scanning, processing the digit... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4229768 | Information processing apparatus In the transmission of binary image signals obtained by scanning of an original document, a high signal compression ratio without deterioration in image quality is achieved by subjecting the binary image signals to a selective thinning process in which th... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4204232 | Pattern transmission system comprising an encoder for encoding partial thinned patterns in two scanning lines along only one boundary line "Black" runs thinned from a substantially two-tone original pattern and having a pattern stroke width of a substantially single picture element are classified into four states where a black run in a present scanning line is (1) linked with a leading side ... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4093941 | Slope feature detection system A character feature detection system is provided for reliably reading non-touching hand printed and multi-font machine printed alphanumeric characters. An information field is scanned by a sensor array, and the sensor responses are digitized to form a bin... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4040009 | Pattern recognition system In order to recognize confusable characters exactly, a pattern recognition system is described wherein, when more than two reference patterns having a similarity to the input unknown pattern larger than a predetermined threshold level are detected by a fi... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4034344 | Character thinning apparatus Character thinning apparatus for use in recognizing characters comprising means for applying a compound operator in cycles to each point of the binarized character on a first matrix, and means for rewriting, in each cycle, character points to which the co... | 07/05/1977 |
| 4020463 | Apparatus and a method for storage and retrieval of image patterns A line image or a line signature is optically scanned to generate digital signals for storage in an image matrix. These digital signals represent black and white cells defining the line signature or line image and are initially processed by tracing the im... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4015239 | Character recognition apparatus Character recognition apparatus which converts two dimensional feature information derived from an unknown character into one dimensional feature information, such as a code train, and recognizes the unknown character by comparing the converted one dimens... | 03/29/1977 |
| 4010446 | Character pattern line thickness regularizing device Line portions of the character pattern in a character recognition device which have a thickness less than a selected standard value are thickened by a thickening circuit to the selected value. The line thickness of the character is then uniformly thinned ... | 03/01/1977 |
| 4003024 | Two-dimensional binary data enhancement system A system for enhancing a binary data bit stream derived from a two-dimensional pattern image wherein, in a preferred embodiment, each data bit in the bit stream and a preselected group of bits associated therewith are sequentially stored in a first locati... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3990044 | Symbol recognition enhancing apparatus Symbols from printed labels are imaged onto a photoresponsive matrix. The matrix is scanned, column by column, to provide a digital data stream characteristic of the symbol with a bit corresponding to each matrix element. Each matrix element is examined b... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3987412 | Method and apparatus for image data compression utilizing boundary following of the exterior and interior borders of objects A binary image containing objects comprised of black picture elements (pels) in a bit-addressable random access memory, is scanned in a predetermined order, until a black pel is encountered. The object is then encircled by a boundary follower in a clockwi... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3967243 | Character pattern normalization method and apparatus for optical character recognition system The character pattern from the scanner is stored in its original form in an auxiliary memory and in compressed form in a main memory. The slant and the horizontal and vertical second-order moments of the character pattern are sensed in the main memory, an... | 06/29/1976 |
