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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7917544 | Method and apparatus for retrieving data representing a postal address from a plurality of postal addresses A method for retrieving a desired postal address from a plurality of postal addresses. The invention can feature receiving input data having input terms for finding the desired postal address from a first database of postal addresses where each postal address is for... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7313267 | Automatic encoding of a complex system architecture in a pattern recognition classifier A method and computer program product are disclosed for automatically encoding a complex system architecture for a pattern recognition classifier. A plurality of subclassifier states are defined as a plurality of sets of state variables, each set of variables corres... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7296004 | Electronic bill payment system with merchant identification A computer implemented system and method for payment remittance receives a payor's payment information, processes this payment information, other than a received zip code, to identify an eleven digit zip code for a payee. The system and method then accesses a databa... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7233692 | Method and computer program product for identifying output classes with multi-modal dispersion in feature space and incorporating multi-modal structure into a pattern recognition system A method and computer program product are disclosed for identifying output classes with multi-modal dispersion in feature space and incorporating multi-modal structure into a pattern recognition system architecture. A plurality of input patterns, determined not to b... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7209905 | System and method for detecting mail theft using additional mail pieces as probes A method of tracking mail pieces includes determining that an observation event has not occurred with respect to a high value mail piece (HVMP). If it is also determined that a corresponding observation event has occurred with respect to another mail piece that was ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7171022 | Common method for communicating area information A method for providing a common framework for area of interest (AOI) specification and access. The method includes providing a first set of instructions which generates an area of interest (AOI) defined by a first geometric shape and defining the first geometric sha... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164791 | Method and computer program product for identifying and incorporating new output classes in a pattern recognition system during system operation The present invention recites a method and computer program product for identifying one or more new pattern classes and incorporating the classes into a pattern recognition classifier as output classes. A plurality of input patterns determined not to be associated w... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161108 | System and method for routing imaged documents Systems and methods for sorting, scanning and routing imaged documents are described. In one configuration, incoming mixed white mail is sorted and coded, then extracted and scanned using the code to separate items. The separate imaged documents are then routed usin... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162082 | Method and apparatus for performing a clean background subtraction A background subtraction apparatus of the present invention includes a key point locator for locating key points on a known object type, a boundary point locator for locating boundary points of the known object that make up the edges of the known object, and an edge... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7121458 | Apparatus and methods for identifying and processing mail using an identification code Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for identifying and processing mail using an identification code on a mailpiece as a redundant source of identification information in a mail sorting system. In one embodiment, this information is s... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7118042 | Method and apparatus for rapid image capture in an image system Embodiments of a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for rapidly capturing images in an automated identification system to effectively extend one dimension of a field of view of an image system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the image system capt... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7105135 | System and method for large scale detection of hazardous materials in the mail or in other objects A system and method that enables early detection of hazardous materials, such as explosives and biological materials, in the early phases of mail handling or processing, is disclosed. The early detection of such hazardous material utilizing the system and method of ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7085432 | Edge detection using Hough transformation A method identifies edges of an object in an image by analyzing an accumulator array produced via a Hough transformation of the image. The method includes the step of identifying a first cell in a first row of the array associated with a first edge of the object. Th... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7072514 | Method of distinguishing handwritten and machine-printed images The present invention is a method of categorizing an image as handwritten, machine-printed, and unknown. First, the image is received. Next, connected components are identified. Next, a bounding box encloses each connected component. Next, a height and width is comp... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7062079 | Method and system for image segmentation A method for segmenting an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The image is segmented by thresholding the fractal map of the image. ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7010165 | Preprocessing of multi-line rotated electronic ink An electronic ink object is preprocessed for improving handwriting recognition results. An electronic ink object, possibly having multiple lines of non-horizontal ink, is preprocessed by segmenting or separating the electronic ink object into one or more lines, comp... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6999635 | Method of reducing background noise by tracking character skew A method of reducing background noise during optical character recognition includes conducting a first recognition pass over image data at a sequence of character positions to frame and recognize a first set of characters while a second set of characters remains unr... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6993155 | Method for reading document entries and addresses The invention relates to a method for reading document entries and addresses. In this context, automatic reading is effected using the intermediate steps of layout analysis, classification of the segmented regions and interpretation of the results in a reader, and i... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6988107 | Reducing and controlling sizes of model-based recognizers A technique for reducing a model database for use with handwriting recognizers. The model database is processed with a tuning set to identify a set of models that would result in the greatest character recognition accuracy. If further model database reduction is des... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6977353 | Apparatus and methods for identifying and processing mail using an identification code Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention identify and sort a mailpiece with destination information by sorting the mailpiece using a code on the front of the mailpiece, if there is a code on the front of the mailpiece. If the mailpiece does not ha... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6970877 | Reducing and controlling sizes of prototype-based recognizers A technique for reducing a prototype database for use with handwriting recognizers. The prototype database is divided into multiple spaces and the effect on the error rate for removing each prototype is identified. All prototypes that contribute to the error rate ar... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6961456 | Method and apparatus for reading and decoding information A method and apparatus is disclosed for reading and decoding information extracted from a form. In the system of the present invention, packages are randomly placed on a conveyor belt, with their labels facing a two-camera subassembly. As the conveyor belt moves, th... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6956969 | Methods and apparatuses for handwriting recognition Method and apparatus for handwriting recognition system for ideographic characters and other characters based on subcharacter hidden Markov models. The ideographic characters are modeled using a sequence of subcharacter models and by using two-dimensional geometric ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954543 | Automated discovery, assignment, and submission of image metadata to a network-based photosharing service An automated metadata discovery, assignment, and submission system is disclosed. The system includes a photosharing service coupled to a network through a server, where the server stores metadata fields. The system also includes at least one client computer capable ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6948867 | Creating and applying a pictorial cancellation mark A method is disclosed for creating a pictorial cancellation mark that may be applied to a mailpiece. The pictorial cancellation originates as a digital image that is then printed through a printer on the mailpiece, such as by application to the postal indicia on the... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947574 | Method and system for interleaving OCR and ABL for automated mail sorting A method and system for automated sorting machines is provided in which a feedback between OCR and ABL takes place. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a loose coupling between ABL and OCR is proposed in which the ABL system is asked for a further ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6943923 | Adaptive technology for automatic document analysis A device for automatic document reading includes an image sensor for imaging the document and an output for data from the document and data concerning meanings of at least part of the scanned data. The device further includes parts for detecting at least a scanning ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6934404 | Stamp detecting device, stamp detecting method, letter processing apparatus and letter processing method An image input section inputs an image of a letter P and stores the same into an image memory. A stamp detecting section detects a stamp by a luminance projection value based on the image of the letter stored in the image memory, determining that an area is not an e... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6754366 | Method for determining if mail contains life harming materials A method that enables the carrier of letters, flats and/or packages (mail) that are addressed to a recipient to determine if the mail contains life harming materials, before the mail is delivered to the recipient. The invention accomplishes the foregoing by receivin... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6647385 | Method of updating an addressee database in a mail sorting apparatus The present invention is directed, in a general aspect, to a method of updating an addressee database in an incoming mail sorting apparatus comprising the steps of: a) providing the addressee database stored in memory associated with the mail sorting appa... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6614931 | Handwritten instructions for messaging appliances A messaging device has a message reception component configured to receive a printable message from a message originator, and a printer that prints the received message and that also prints an origin identifier of the message originator on the print mediu... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6574351 | Destination address area detection apparatus The present invention provides a destination area detection apparatus comprising: destination area candidates generator 21; feature amount extractor 22 for calculating a feature amount of each of the destination area candidates; storage unit 3 for storing... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6557000 | Method of updating an addressee database in a mail sorting apparatus The present invention is directed, in a general aspect, to a method of updating an addressee database in an incoming mail sorting apparatus comprising the steps of: a) providing the addressee database stored in memory associated with the mail sorting appa... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6487302 | Method for reading and sorting documents A method for reading and sorting documents is provided which generally comprises staging each document for processing, capturing a digital image of the front side and the back side of each document, determining the physical orientation of each document us... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6453054 | Method of recognizing sequences of numerals using a sliding frames Described is a method of recognizing sequences of handwritten and/or joined-up numerals, in particular post codes, the method calling for the conversion of of feature vectors, thus enabling the sequence of numerals to be recognized using an HMM recognitio... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6346941 | Interference check result displaying method and interference check result displaying apparatus as well as computer-readable recording medium having interference check result displaying program recorded thereon The present invention provides an interference check result displaying method, by which a rough position and a precise position of a representative point at which contact or interference occurs between objects present in a virtual three-dimensional space.... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6269171 | Method for exploiting correlated mail streams using optical character recognition A method for exploiting correlated mail streams using optical character recognition is provided in which a static database is used to store data based on training. Real-time data for the parameters of interest, such as address block location, zip code, ci... | 07/31/2001 |
| 5974147 | Method of verifying unreadable indicia for an information-based indicia program The present invention provides a method for verifying an unreadable information-based indium that has been generated by a postal security device (PSD) for information-based indium comprising a 2-D bar code, certain human-readable information, a digital si... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5799108 | Image decorative processing apparatus In an image processing apparatus, a matrix for an arbitrary pixel (to be an observed pixel) on the original image is set up so that the density of the observed pixel and that of a target pixel which is located in the direction along which shadows are form... | 08/25/1998 |
