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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189961 | Techniques in optical character recognition An image deskew system and techniques are used in the context of optical character recognition. An image is obtained of an original set of characters in an original linear (horizontal) orientation. An acquired set of characters, which is skewed relative to the origi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 7965904 | Position and orientation measuring apparatus and position and orientation measuring method, mixed-reality system, and computer program A position and orientation measuring apparatus comprising, a storage unit adapted to store character region specifying information and position information in association with a character region place in a physical space, a detection unit adapted to detect the chara... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7421107 | Method of creating a substitute check and an apparatus therefor A substitute check is created for an original check which has an encode line printed thereon. Check image data which is representative of an image of the original check is received and analyzed to establish positioning of MICR characters within the encode line of th... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7386160 | System and method for determining image resolution using MICR characters A system and method for determining the image resolution of a check image using MICR characters. The disclosed system includes an extracting system for extracting a magnetic ink code recognition (MICR) code line from the document image, wherein the extracting system... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7360157 | Aligning content in an electronic document Aligning the contents of document objects on an electronic document page. Organizing a page of document objects so textual content is aligned to natural eye scanning patterns promotes readership and usability. When a user creates a new island of text, the new text c... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356183 | Segmentation method and system for multiple raster content (MRC) representation of documents A method and a system for separating an image signal into a set of image planes in accordance with a control signal. The system comprises a selector module, an edge processing module and a foreground/background separation module. The selector module receives the con... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356200 | Method and device for determining skew angle of an image Methods and apparatuses for determining a skew angle of text relative to an axis are disclosed herein. One exemplary embodiment of the method comprises locating a first portion of the text that has a spatial frequency greater than a first preselected value. The meth... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7336828 | Multiple handwriting recognition engine selection A system and method for switching between handwriting recognizers is described. A user may select between various recognizers to associate received handwritten ink with the recognizers. Accordingly, a user is able to write in a first language, switch and write in a ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7319799 | Method of recognizing and indexing documents A method of recognizing and indexing documents, using a scanner connected to a computer, the method including scanning the documents, then using a pointing device or member of the computer to designate an arbitrary point P in at least one box of the documents, and f... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317557 | Paper-to-computer interfaces The present invention provides an apparatus and method which facilitates the use of a printed or scribed document as an interface with a computer. The apparatus in one aspect comprises: a printed or scribed document bearing specialized calibration marks, the documen... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7305089 | Picture taking apparatus and method of controlling same The camera includes a sensor for sensing the photographer's iris image and registering the image in advance. The iris image is recorded in the image of a subject by a digital MCU at a timing different from that at which the image of the subject is captured. The reco... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7284864 | Projector type display apparatus There is provided a safe image display apparatus for projecting an image on a screen that can minimize a stimulus to eyes, retinae and optic nerves from projected light entering into the eyes directly. By comparing a displayed image captured by a camera with an inpu... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7266236 | Accelerated handwritten symbol recognition in a pen based tablet computer The present invention provides a method and apparatus for accelerated handwritten symbol recognition in a pen based tablet computer. In one embodiment, handwritten symbols are translated into machine readable characters using special purpose hardware. In one embodim... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7242802 | Segmentation method and system for Multiple Raster Content (MRC) representation of documents A method and a system for separating an image signal into a set of image planes. The system comprises a min-max module, a dynamic threshold module and a separation module. The min-max module receives the image signal, searches for a minimum and maximum within at lea... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7167165 | Temporary lines for writing A user is provided with guidelines that are temporarily displayed with content, in order to assist the user in neatly and accurately writing electronic ink. The guidelines may appear when the user moves a writing tool, such as a stylus or pen, close to a display and... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7151859 | Method and system for correcting direction or orientation of document image A document image is often accidentally placed at an undesirable angle during image scanning. In order to correct the orientation of the image document, an angle must be determined based upon the document image. In determining the angle, the document image is process... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7133559 | Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, and computer readable recording medium on which image processing program is recorded The image processing device 1 generates edge image data from input image data, measures the distances between edge pixels in the main and secondary scanning direction, and interpolates between the edge pixels where said distances are less than a specified num... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7110568 | Segmentation of a postal object digital image by Hough transform In order to segment a digital image of a postal packet in order to read a postal address (AP) automatically on said packet, the method consists: in subdividing (20) the image into image blocks of identical size; in applying (30) processing based on a H... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110619 | Assisted reading method and apparatus An automated method and apparatus for assisting a reader to read a printed or scribed document that cites, directly or indirectly, other information. A camera focuses down on the document for generating video signals representing an image of the document in electron... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7054029 | Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium Upon synthesizing objects, information bits indicating the types of objects are lost. To solve this problem, this invention provides an image processing apparatus having discrimination means for discriminating a type of object to be rendered, determination means for... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050626 | Color conversion apparatus and color conversion program storage medium A color conversion apparatus has an input section for inputting page information having both image information including color data and character information including color data, a color conversion section for practicing mutually different color conversions for bot... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7038474 | Laser-induced critical parameter analysis of CMOS devices A technique is described for performing critical parameter analysis (CPA) of a semiconductor device (DUT) by combining the capabilities of conventional automated test equipment (ATE) with a focused optical beam scanning device such as a laser scanning microscope (LS... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035463 | Document image processor, method for extracting document title, and method for imparting document tag information A document image processing device and method for extracting a title region and a mark attached by the user from a document image to use them as document tag information. A region with a region average character size larger then a predetermine extraction judging val... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034848 | System and method for automatically cropping graphical images An image cropping system utilizes memory, an object detector, and an image cropper. A set of digital data that defines a graphical image is stored in the memory. The object detector analyzes the set of digital data and automatically identifies a portion of the digit... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7023917 | Detecting subtitles in a video signal A method and arrangement (300) are disclosed for detecting the presence, appearance or disappearance of subtitles in a video signal. A very high reliability can be achieved, and a marginal processing power is needed, due to the fact that most computations are... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7007303 | Systems and methods for authenticating documents A method and device for creating a notarized document from a document, comprising acquiring image data of the document; generating a document data file based on the image data, the document data file comprising a exemplar table and a block table; and appending the d... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6993205 | Automatic method of detection of incorrectly oriented text blocks using results from character recognition The invention determines the correct orientation of text blocks being processed with an optical character recognition computer program. The method determines a recognition confidence of characters in a text block being analyzed by the optical character recognition c... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6945653 | Anti-glare device for projector There is provided a safe image display apparatus for projecting an image on a screen that can minimize a stimulus to eyes, retinae and optic nerves from projected light entering into the eyes directly. By comparing a displayed image captured by a camera with an inpu... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6904170 | Method and system for document segmentation A method of document segmentation. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method of document segmentation that performs a plurality of projection profiles of pixel intensities on a document containing a plurality of text lines over a range... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6831645 | System and method for performing font operations when background color is transparent One embodiment of a method of performing a font operation involves receiving a set of font data identifying a font operation to be performed. If a first font data unit in the set indicates that a first coordinate should be a background color and transparent backgrou... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6748123 | Displaying multi-line fields for key-in A method for displaying data includes receiving an input image of alphanumeric characters appearing on first and second lines. The characters are concatenated into a single line so as to generate an output image in which the characters from the second line follow th... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6738530 | Method of recognizing character in which correction of inclination of character is carried out and apparatus for carrying out this method A method of recognizing a character specifies a character in an image. Furthermore, the method of recognizing a character evaluates a symmetrical-ness of a shape of the character. Furthermore, the method of recognizing a character carries out an inclination correcti... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6704467 | Image editing with block selection Composing image data representing an original image in an image processing device, the image processing device having an input device and a display device, including performing a block selection process on the image data to identify at least one image blo... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6671417 | Character recognition system A reference line detecting step 4 assumes two reference lines dividing a character row image into three, i.e., upper, intermediate and lower areas to be quadratic curves independent of one another, and obtains parameters determining the two reference line... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6650362 | Movement detecting apparatus with feature point extractor based on luminance gradient in current frame In connection with the detection of an amount of movement of an image such as a document image having a small gradient of brightness, it has been difficult to detect the amount by a representative point method, and a block matching method requires much ti... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6549662 | Method of recognizing characters Characters of data on a document are recognized by automatically determining the definitions of characters of the data from the arrangement of character strings of the data. Character strings on the document are extracted by reading the document, and head... | 04/15/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6473539 | Image processing apparatus with an image and binding positions display feature, related method, and medium An image processing apparatus for preventing overlap of the region of an image of an original with the positions of staples is provided. It is determined if the positions of staples set through an operation unit overlap with the image of the original read... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6473524 | Optical object recognition method and system An iterative application of an optical object recognition method, such as an OCR method, with enhancements and modifications yields improved speed and accuracy. In the exemplary embodiment, after an initial pass of the OCR method on a document image, unre... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6466954 | Method of analyzing a layout structure of an image using character recognition, and displaying or modifying the layout A document image processing apparatus. A layout analysis section analyzes a layout structure of an input image. A layout information memory section stores layout information representing a relationship between the layout structure and a corresponding area... | 10/15/2002 |
