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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7362922 | Image database apparatus and method of controlling operation of same Ten representative images are extracted from an image database storing images of a number of frames. The extracted representative images are displayed in a coordinate area, along the coordinate axes of which the image characteristics of the images are plotted, in a ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349585 | Image processing system that internally transmits lowest-resolution image suitable for image processing In one embodiment, an image processing system includes a first computer that processes image and a second computer connected with the first computer via a network. The second computer transmits the image to the first computer via the network after adjusting the reso... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348991 | Video/graphics text mode enhancement method for digitally processed data A text enhancement unit is introduced in order to alleviate the degradation of text characters on computer or television displays. The text enhancement unit uses an enhancement process to regain uniformity and intensity that may be lost during image processing. The ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343052 | End-user-navigable set of zoomed-in images derived from a high-resolution master image The invention relates generally to improvements in systems used in the development (“authoring”) of interactive visual media. More particularly, the invention relates to (a) the automatic or semi-automatic generation of a set of files representing “zoomed-in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336378 | Image processing with recognized character codes In an image processor for a character image included in an image data to be processed, character codes are recognized, and character sizes of the characters in the character image are recognized. A font data is selected in a plurality of font data of different sizes... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7292727 | Electronic ink as a software object Described is electronic ink maintained as a software object, thereby associating ink functionality with electronic ink data. The ink may be separated into words or characters, with one object per word or character. By the associated functionality, applications that ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7218780 | Image scanner and an optical character recognition system using said image scanner The present invention is directed to providing an image scanner and an optical recognition system using said image scanner which can scan only the “intended region” to carry out character recognition and can carry out character recognition in the background of a... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7184046 | Method and apparatus for font storage reduction The present invention is aimed at three specific data areas of font compression, each of whose size has become significant as other data areas have been compressed. The three data areas include model factoring, character level feature measurement (local dimensions) ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7173660 | Method for displaying an information image on a screen For an image to be displayed on a liquid crystal display, a thinning process is executed to reduce a number of pixels constructing the image. An original image of an information image is produced in accordance with a pixel number of a taken subject image. A low-pass... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170522 | Image processing circuit, combined image processing circuit, and image forming apparatus An image processing circuit comprising plural line buffers is provided. Each line buffer stores pixel data of plural pixels as line data. A first image processing part performs a first image processing task on original image data provided from the exterior by using ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164367 | Component-based, adaptive stroke-order system An efficient and simple approach to encoding ideographic characters as sequences of input strokes or stroke categories is disclosed, wherein: each character is represented by one or more sequences of one or more components; each component corresponds to a plurality ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7120302 | Method for improving the accuracy of character recognition processes The present invention embodies a character recognition method for constructing a result string from a plurality of result sets. Each result set comprises at least one candidate character, and each candidate character has an associated confidence indication. The meth... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7031519 | Orthogonal technology for character recognition The present invention encompasses a self-orthogonal character recognition engine for executing an iterative method employing a database of predetermined character strings. The method receives a digital representation of a character string. It then generates a propos... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6993209 | Low resolution-to-high resolution image correlation Systems and methods for facilitating a WYSIWYG relationship between character strings when rendered on a relatively low resolution device, such as a computer monitor, and the same character strings when rendered on a relatively high resolution device, such as a lase... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6983071 | Character segmentation device, character segmentation method used thereby, and program therefor Image size converter 4 converts the size of the image data stored in image input part 1 to an arbitrary size and stores the converted data. Image enhancer 5 uses the character frame design data stored in character frame information memory 3 | 01/03/2006 |
| 6956979 | Magnification of information with user controlled look ahead and look behind contextual information A mechanism is provided for magnifying information with contextual information. The user may configure the magnification mechanism to present some contextual information along with the focus being magnified. Particularly, a user may set “look ahead” and “look ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6922487 | Method and apparatus for capturing text images A device and method are described for capturing an image of a document using a digital camera. The invention includes a resolution analyzer for analyzing the resolution of text characters in the image, to assess whether the resolution is suitable for OCR. In one asp... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6836271 | Boldfaced character-displaying method and display equipment employing the boldfaced character-displaying method Character data to be displayed is obtained. The obtained character data is boldfaced by increasing a character line width of the obtained character data in a first direction by an amount corresponding to at least a width of a light-emitting element. A boldfaced char... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6768497 | Elastic presentation space A method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising the steps of scaling the visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on the display screen the scaled representation containing the entire content of the visual... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6668101 | Image processing apparatus and method, and computer-readable memory An input image is converted into an image in a predetermined format. An optimal character recognition resolution determination unit determines, using the converted image, an optimal resolution to be used upon executing character recognition of the input i... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6661921 | Image process apparatus, image process method and storage medium An image processing apparatus capable of performing high-quality image reproduction to even low-density and color characters in an original is provided. The character is recognized from an image, the character of the original is expanded into a dot font b... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6625328 | Text-moire' minimization Pixel-level monitoring and reconfiguring of both text inter-word spacing and individual character widths minimizes undesirable moire' channels and moire'-glyphs, and more particularly relates to operator-selected automatic intra-word space manipulation an... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6501475 | Glyph-based outline font generation independent of resolution A system, method, and computer-readable medium for generating a glyph-based outline font are provided, which allow for font communication between different devices having various (high and low) resolutions. A method selects a character for display on the ... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6384828 | Digital processing apparatus and method for use in enlarging the size of an image displayed on a 2D fixed-pixel screen Apparatus comprising a logic member and a shear member incorporating an upsampler are used to enlarge the number of pixels in at least one image dimension by a factor F=N/M, where N is a first given-valued integer, M is a second given-valued integer and 1... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6157750 | Methods of transforming a basic shape element of a character The present invention relates to an outline font. The purpose lies in supplying a transforming and rendering method in the shape where the important form of the shape, such as the thickness of the stroke, will be maintained from the basic shape, and at th... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6011879 | Optical character recognition system and method using special normalization for special characters Character normalization is accomplished using a scaling program. Data input to a scaling program are character images and character parameters (height of result buffer frame, character height, character width and character location), and parameters calcul... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5991441 | Real time handwriting recognition system A handwritten character recognizer having an input cluster buffer and a point buffer with dynamic and static stroke feature extraction and segment analysis by conical boundaries for identification of stroke segments dynamic stroke feature extractor static... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5966475 | System for enlarging and smoothing textual characters Described above is a method of enlarging a character that is represented by a reference pattern of pixels. The method includes a step of converting pixels of the reference pattern to corresponding rectangles of pixels in an enlarged pattern of pixels. Fur... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5953465 | Interpolation processing method and apparatus for image signals having improved image edge differentiation A judgment is made as to whether an interpolation point in an original image is or is not located at an image edge portion. The judgment is made by using a threshold value having been set such that, as a desired level of sharpness of an interpolation imag... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5930408 | Character pattern generation A character processing apparatus for recognizing coordinate information expressing a character, an exterior outline, an interior outline, a horizontal line and a vertical line; classifying the coordinate information expressing a character, the exterior ou... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5896470 | Image processor providing improved readability of characters With an image processor of the present invention, when a reduction mode is selected, image data of a document is stored, and whether the image data includes a character or not is detected. If no character is recognized, copying is performed. On the other ... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5892844 | Image processing apparatus An image forming process system in which an original document which includes characters to be copies is scanned. A desired magnification ratio for magnifying the original document can also be input. Further, the characters in the original document are seg... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5845083 | MPEG encoding and decoding system for multimedia applications A multimedia data encoding and decoding system capable of handling various types of data arranged in variable-size blocks. Frames of image, graphics and text data are supplied to a frame buffer. In response to an encoding command from a CPU, an MPEG encod... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5825942 | Image processor providing improved readability of characters In an image processor according to the present invention, image data of a document is read and whether the image data includes a character or not is detected. If no character is recognized, copying is performed. If a character is detected, then the charac... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5809183 | Method and apparatus for recognizing character information at a variable magnification A method and apparatus for recognizing character information in an original document with high recognition accuracy regardless of the size of a character to be recognized. An input image is processed by an image processing circuit and stored in an image r... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5757982 | Quadrantal scaling of dot matrix data In its basic aspects, the present invention uses a 3×3 data window to examine and to convert data in a 2×-resolution enhancement. Data is altered from a linear 2×-expansion method if and when the 3×3 data meets four criteria that determines the freque... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5715336 | Character recognition method and apparatus that re-inputs image data at a second resolution derived from the character size and a selected normalization size There is disclosed a character recognition method, and an apparatus therefor, capable of improving the accuracy of character recognition employing character normalization and direction index counting. The original image information is read with a resolvin... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5696849 | Cascaded anti-aliasing filter control for sampled images A cascaded anti-aliasing filter control circuit for sampled images has a plurality of video effects modules coupled in a chain,. each module performing a particular transform of a cascaded video effect. An input module has as inputs constants for the part... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5579416 | Character processing apparatus for selectively modifying a font pattern A character processing apparatus comprises: parameter memory means for storing type parameters; display means for displaying a list of a plurality of type vector fonts on the basis of the type parameters; selecting means for selecting a plurality of type ... | 11/26/1996 |
