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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5581665 | Three-dimensional object movement and transformation processing apparatus for performing movement and transformation of an object in a three-diamensional space A three-dimensional object movement and transformation processing apparatus has a shape storing section for storing shapes of a plurality of three-dimensional objects, an affine matrix calculating section for calculating transformation affine matrices Mow... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5579418 | Image interpolation apparatus Method and apparatus for providing interpolated image data from original image data represented in terms of pixels, each pixel defined in terms of value and position in an original image, includes an original image input receiving original image data from... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5563625 | Fast 180 degree image rotation and reversal A method of reversing all of the pixels in an image word uses recursive steps of shifting the image word a varying, predetermined number of spaces, followed by filtering the shifted and unshifted words through a varying, predetermined mask. The number of ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5546479 | Method for detecting inclination of an image of characters A method of determining unintended inclination in an image of characters that is to be processed by a device such as a copy machine, a facsimile machine, or an optical character recognition system. An image of characters is generated, and expansion is per... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5537489 | Method of normalizing handwritten symbols A handwritten test symbol, such as an alphabetic character, a word or a signature, written on a digitizing tablet is normalized by comparison with a model symbol to determine the transformation necessary to best fit the test symbol to the model symbol. Su... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5519794 | Computer-generated autostereography method and apparatus A method and apparatus for making autostereographic images wherein a computer is provided with a number of planar images in digital form, in a two-dimensional array of columns and rows of digital data. The columns are interleaved and rotated to form an in... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5517587 | Positioning method and apparatus for line scanned images A method and computer implementation are disclosed for correcting skew and shift which may occur as the image on a document or other field is scanned with line scanning apparatus. By selecting scans, lines are logically overlaid upon a memory map of the s... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5508936 | Garment marker system and method having computer assisted alignment with symmetric cloth patterns A method and apparatus for adjusting a marker in preparation for cutting that is adapted for use with fabrics having a stripe or plaid patterns that provide for an axis of symmetry. The present invention is characterized by computer assisted design matchi... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5487115 | Method and apparatus for determining the fine angular orientation of bar code symbols in two-dimensional CCD images A system for determining the fine angular orientation of a bar code symbol in a two-dimensional pixel image. A window is selected from the two-dimensional image for processing. Edge magnitude information and edge direction information are determined for a... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5465304 | Segmentation of text, picture and lines of a document image In a character recognition system, a method and apparatus for segmenting a document image into areas containing text and non-text. Document segmentation in the present invention is comprised generally of the steps of: providing a bit-mapped representation... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5461459 | Digital copying apparatus capable of forming a binding at an appropriate position A digital copying apparatus capable of forming a binding at an appropriate position with respect to a copy image irrespective of an orientation of an original document. The digital copying apparatus detects orientations of the original document, an origin... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5452374 | Skew detection and correction of a document image representation In a character recognition system, a method and apparatus for correcting the skew of a document image. Skew correction is typically performed during segmentation of the document image into text and non-text parts. Skew correction generally involves skew a... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5448376 | Image processing apparatus for deleting undesired image from image of document An image processing apparatus for deleting an undesired image from an image includes a scanning part, an image memory for storing an image of a document being scanned, a delete-image memory for storing predetermined standard geometry parameters with respe... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5446803 | Image signal processing apparatus Disclosed is an image signal processing apparatus in which the position of an input image can be corrected easily irrespective of the shape of the input image by use of attribute information obtained from image information. Image information read by an im... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5438431 | Method and apparatus for generating digital halftone images using a rotated dispersed dither matrix Method and apparatus enabling color or black/white bi-level or multi-level halftone images to be displayed or printed on various raster output devices, in particular on display devices (cathode ray tubes, plasma displays, liquid crystal displays) or on pr... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5422962 | Method and apparatus for extracting line segments from an image of an object A method of extracting a line segment contained in an original image includes the steps of clipping an image, which conforms to the size of a receptive field defining a small area, from the original image, projecting the clipped receptive-field image from... | 06/06/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5414781 | Method and apparatus for classifying documents A method and apparatus for identifying documents and classes of documents. The documents are provided with distinctive logotypes which are preferably at the top of each document. The coding of the logotypes is by the use of distinctive angular alignments ... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5414811 | Method and apparatus for controlling rapid display of multiple images from a digital image database A digital image processing system for displaying digitized images on a screen of a display unit includes a data base such as a compact disc on which the digitized images are stored, a plurality of image memories for holding the digitized images for displa... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5410620 | Digital data reader of digital data recording sheet A system and method for locating and reading digital data in data regions within a data field disposed on a surface of an object to be identified include the capability of compensating for optical or physical distortions of the data field as viewed by an ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5410417 | Method and apparatus for correcting an angle of an optical image for improving the efficiency of facsimile encoding of the image A system controller (102) is for generating a compressed facsimile message in a radio communications system (100). The system controller (102) includes an image memory (203) for storing an optical image, means for image analysis (205), means for best scan... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5408543 | Digital data reader of digital data recording sheet A system and method for locating and reading digital data in data regions within a data field disposed on a surface of an object to be identified include the capability of compensating for optical or physical distortions of the data field as viewed by an ... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5408540 | Character slant recognition in a word image An Image processing apparatus and method for character slant detection and correction is disclosed. The apparatus comprises: scanning logic for scanning a word image and applying a local slant test to each pixel to determine whether in the image at the pi... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5384645 | Image rotating apparatus An image rotating device includes first and second buffer memories to which image data, sequentially fed, are alternately written every m/n lines with respect to bit width n per pixel of the image data and bit width m per word of a page memory. An image d... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5384451 | Method and apparatus for decoding bar code symbols using composite signals A bar code reader decodes a bar code symbol in a pixel image by transforming the data corresponding to the symbol along a first scan line, where the transformation comprises rotation and stretching. The reader generates a composite vector and a count vect... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5379127 | Image recording apparatus and image recording retrieving apparatus A device for recording and retrieving images corresponding to a plurality of documents is based on an apparatus which generates images which respectively correspond to a plurality of original documents, rotates those images to provide a more meaningful im... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5367580 | Method and system for establishing a coincidence between two images 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... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5359677 | Image reader and facsimile machine using such image reader An image reader includes a scanner for reading a two-dimensional image and converting the read data into two-dimensional image data, a memory for storing the two-dimensional image data, correction circuit for correcting the two-dimensional image data so t... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5355420 | Method and apparatus for identification of document skew A method and apparatus for identifying and correcting for document skew. Lines of a bitmap are scanned and a variance in the number of ON pixels as a function of skew angle is calculated. Skew of the original document occurs when the variance is a maximum... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5337161 | Tab image extraction and placement An electronic reprographic printing system that extracts a tab image from a print job, document or memory for printing on tab stock. The extracted tab image can be rotated, shifted and scaled accordingly, to be printed in the tab area of a sheet of tab st... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5325447 | Handwritten digit normalization method A handwritten character image normalization technique provides predetermined pixel dimensions and a normalized skew. The skew slope of the input image is calculated. This skew slope is employed to determine the bounds of the smallest parallelogram which c... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5313311 | Hybrid mechanical and electronic deskew of scanned images in an image input terminal In an image input terminal for deriving an electronic representation of the image, including a platen for supporting a document to be scanned, a scanning system including an illumination source for illuminating a document supported on the platen, an array... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5311607 | Facsimile machine for printing documents all with corresponding edges aligned but without requiring scanning A facsimile machine which will print documents which have their corresponding edges aligned. Incoming data is stored in memory. A line of text, as it is bit mapped in memory, is identified. Line scans are taken through the upper and lower regions of the t... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5295488 | Method and apparatus for projecting diagnostic images from volumed diagnostic data A method and apparatus for manipulating diagnostic images obtained with computed tomography or magnetic resonance systems calculates the rotation of the data around two orthogonal axes and then compresses the data to a plane before rotating it about a thi... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5297217 | Tile-oriented technique for collectively performing image rotation scaling and digital halftone screening A tile-oriented technique and associated apparatus for manipulating a continuous tone (contone) image through image rotation, anamorphic scaling and digital halftone screening for use in illustratively implementing a page description language. Specificall... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5293431 | System for orienting documents in the automated processing of bulk mail and the like A series of documents to be processed are optically inspected, and compared with a reference standard to identify the relative orientation of each document. To this end, an image acquired from the document (preferably from each side of the document) is fo... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5280370 | Apparatus and method for scanning by means of a rotatable detector array An apparatus for capture of image data from an object has a detector array containing at least one detector row, and arrangements for rotating the detector array relative to the object, as well as for moving the object and the detector array relative to o... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5241626 | Image processing apparatus having improved two-dimensional address generator First parameters such as a main scanning repetition count, a subscanning repetition count, and the like are calculated in accordance with an instructed rotation angle. An arithmetic content according to the instructed rotation angle is read out from a mem... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5233168 | Method of deskewing an image A method of derotating an image includes the following steps: Scanning a scannable image to capture in memory a pixel by pixel mapped image; determining size and skew of the mapped image; performing a series of area-limited vertical pixel shifts upon the ... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5228100 | Method and system for producing from document image a form display with blank fields and a program to input data to the blank fields A data processing system for inputting data to a form display includes a scanner for inputting an image of a form document to the system, a processor for recognizing character and line patterns from the form document image supplied from the scanner to pro... | 07/13/1993 |
