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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7423777 | Imaging system and business methodology A digitization process and system which is initiated with the pick up and transport of documents to a scanning facility. Following pickup and transport, a number of additional steps are performed toward the goal of digitzing all documents without the loss of any doc... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7305011 | Periodic broadcast and location of evolving media content with application to seminar and stroke media Techniques are provided for broadcasting history or coarse representations or both of stroke media and other media. Levels are created for media, and the levels are periodically broadcast. The levels segment the media and allow the media to be examined with details ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295332 | Interactive printer with actuator A printer for printing a first interface onto a first surface, thereby to generate a first interface surface. The first interface includes first coded data and is at least partially based on first document data. The document data includes first identity data indicat... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7116843 | Method and system using non-uniform image blocks for rapid interactive viewing of digital images over a network Apparatus and method for rapid interactive viewing of a digital image over a network. A client computer displays a view of an image. The image is originally resident on a server computer. The client computer maintains a cache, initially empty, of image blocks alread... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7092118 | Progressive image transmission using discrete wavelet transforms Disclosed herein is a method of storing and of progressively transferring a still image so that it can be conveniently previewed during the transfer and so that a user can terminate the transfer at an early stage if the image turns out to be undesirable. The methods... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7054039 | Fax confirmation device A method and apparatus for placing an indelible mark on each page of a document which has been sent by FAX. The sender's FAX machine applies a clear/transparent chemical or ink message on the surface of the document which contains information such as the FAX machine... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7016067 | Image output apparatus Disclosed is an image output apparatus having an image reading section, an image storing section for storing image data read by the image reading section, and an image output section for outputting an image corresponding to a document on the basis of the image data ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6954540 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM FOR REALIZING ITS FUNCTION, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM FOR REALIZING ITS FUNCTION, AND IMAGE TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION SYSTEM This invention provides an image transmission device and an image display device capable of preventing easily the image data from being tampered with and of confirming the originality of the image data visually. More specifically, this invention provides an image tr... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6950460 | Multichannel transceiver of digital signals over power lines A data transceiving station of digital data frames includes a digital modem coupled to a transmission line, and a microprocessor receiving demodulated data from the modem according to a Packet Mode or a Bit Mode transmission through an interface circuit. The interfa... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6925208 | Methods and apparatus for partitioning transform data Transform data is partitioned to more efficiently process requests in a server to transfer source data to a client. The transform data, generated from source data, comprises spatially related coefficients such that a block of coefficients permits reconstruction of i... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6873435 | Print having encoded metadata coupled thereto An output print produced by an image processing apparatus comprising a substrate having an image thereon and a machine readable marking identifying a data source used to process the image provided. ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6809840 | Image processing method for adaptively sub-sampling an image A digital image processing method for adaptively sub-sampling an image to X % of original pixels, includes the steps of generating an edge map of the image; normalizing the edge map to N-bits; applying a shift to the normalized edge map such that X % of the pixels w... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6088130 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus and method are adapted to prevent a decline in image quality while reducing the number of bits in a discrimination signal stored in memory. The apparatus includes an image compressing device for encoding image data in prescri... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6028680 | Apparatus and method for recording received results in facsimile A facsimile machine is disclosed that can record and print identifying information pertaining to the transmitter and the transmission of a facsimile message. The invention accommodates and allows for identifying information in many languages, accommodatin... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6016361 | Method and apparatus for compressing binary data using pattern matching encoding In a method and an apparatus for pattern matching encoding disclosed a font bit map library is provided separately from a temporary updating library, in which temporary bit map pattern data capable of being updated according to a character pattern cut out... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5946461 | System for positioning image information on special print media sheets A printing system in which multiple images are positioned on multiple special electronic pages is provided. The printing system includes an interpreter which reads a stream written in a page description language (PDL). Upon reading a first portion of the ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5946105 | Facsimile apparatus and control method therefor There are provided a facsimile apparatus in which fonts of plural languages each including plural characters need not be permanently stored from the beginning, and a control method therefor. A data request from the facsimile apparatus is recognized by an ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5892845 | Data communication and processing system in which code data generated by recognition of image data is transmitted A facsimile device is linked to an external station via a telephone line in a data communication and processing system, the external station being one of a host computer and a fax server. The facsimile device includes an input unit which inputs image data... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5847841 | Mixed-mode symbol removal for facsimile data compression A method for data compression provides for an improved digital facsimile document transmission system. The mixed mode method provides that symbols can be located both individually and as a part of a line of symbols in order to provide for efficient operat... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5801848 | Process for transmitting and/or storing information A process for the transmission and/or storage of information defined in digital form comprises transforming the clear file, containing said information, to graphic equivalent form, transmitting and/or storing the same in such graphic-equivalent form and b... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5764374 | System and method for lossless image compression having improved sequential determination of golomb parameter A lossless image compression encoder/decoder system having a context determination circuit and a code generator. The image compressor uses the context of a pixel to be encoded to predict the value of the pixel and determines a prediction error and maps th... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5754308 | System and method for archiving digital versions of documents and for generating quality printed documents therefrom An inventive page encoding, printing, retrieval and archiving system and method wherein document information designators are encoded for pages. The designator includes information regarding the location of the digital representation of the page and option... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5719960 | System for dispatching task orders into a user network and method Task order system 10 dispatches task orders throughout user network 10N concerning user record documents. Task order 10T is carried on an input medium suitable for scanning such as ordinary paper, and specifies both the dispatch task and the record docume... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5659635 | Image processing apparatus for compressing and decompressing image data An image processing apparatus for compressing and decompressing image data. The apparatus includes: a composition circuit for composing composed data, having a predetermined bit width, from the given image data which correspond to spatially continuous pix... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5627661 | Facsimile apparatus for optically recognizing characters and transmitting the recognized characters and communication system for transmitting the recognized characters between a terminal and a center An OCR document sheet is printed at an order terminal side, and contents of an order written in the OCR document sheet by an transmitter are read by a scanner of a scanner control element at the order terminal side. The contents of the order are converted... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5625467 | Facsimile apparatus for producing an image by using a newly stored font pattern A facsimile apparatus includes a reading part for optically reading font pattern data by raster scanning of a font pattern sheet, a communication part for receiving image data from an external facsimile terminal via a telephone line and for transmitting i... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5576851 | Encoded symbol reader for a two-dimensional encoded symbol In an encoded symbol reader for decoding a two-dimensional encoded symbol, an image of the symbol is read and primary image data which directly corresponds to the symbol is generated. Further, from the primary data, secondary image data having less inform... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5548416 | Input receiving apparatus by using a facsimile apparatus An input receiving apparatus receives an input such as an order slip transmitted from a facsimile apparatus at a user terminal. The user makes a conversation reservation before the user transmits the image data of the order slip. After the input receiving... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5513301 | Image compression and decompression apparatus with reduced frame memory An image compression and decompression apparatus wherein the scale of a required frame memory is reduced to allow reduction of the circuit scale is disclosed. The image compression and decompression apparatus comprises first and second frame memories each... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5465326 | Mixed-mode transmission control apparatus for adding an identification block to mixed-mode data A mixed-mode transmission control apparatus for transmitting a mixed-mode document data from a transmitting terminal to a reception terminal via a network. The apparatus includes a storage part in which at least a transmitting terminal identifying data an... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5444779 | Electronic copyright royalty accounting system using glyphs The present invention is a system for utilizing a printable, yet unobtrusive glyph or similar two-dimensionally encoded mark to identify copyrighted documents. Upon attempting to reproduce such a document, the glyph is detected, decoded and used to accura... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5363214 | Facsimile transmission system Machine encoding of forms allows a simple recognition system to determine what marks on the form bear relevant information and, then to transmit only the relevant information, i.e. transmits bit maps representing the unique parts of the form and a descrip... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5337156 | Image output device and facsimile management report output method A facsimile in which various kinds of management reports on its operation conditions are output. In the facsimile, when outputting a management report about the facsimile itself, the contents of the management report are once converted into code data and ... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5337158 | Facsimile data processing apparatus In a facsimile data processing apparatus, printer code, including a line pitch amount control command and character codes are received from a host computer. The character codes are converted into image data and the image data is converted into transmissio... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5315382 | Image processing apparatus It is determined whether an object pixel in entered image data resides on (a) part of a black character or line, (b) not on part of a black character or line but in close proximity thereto, (c) neither part of nor in close proximity to a black character o... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5294202 | Bar-code printing device In a printing device for printing bar-codes, a string of characters and symbols representing the contents of the bar-codes are printed under the bar-codes by replacing the lower part of the dot pattern with the dot pattern for the string. The present inve... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5282062 | Facsimile data processing apparatus In a facsimile data processing apparatus, printer code, including a line pitch amount control command and character codes are received from a host computer. The character codes are converted into image data and the image data is converted into transmissio... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5274468 | Reproduction apparatus and method with user-definable editing and machine operation functions Apparatus and method for reproduction of an original document wherein image information on the document is selected by character-coding to designate the information for treatment according to one or more particular selective editing or machine control fun... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5257119 | Image processing apparatus which adds apparatus identification data to images An image processing apparatus previously stores information on particular kinds of image, determines the degree of similarity between an input full-color image signal and the information on particular kinds of image, controls conditions for addition of a ... | 10/26/1993 |
