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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7406599 | Indicating status for digital signatures Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for presenting status of digital signatures. A digital document is received that defines a presentation structure and includes a digital signature. The digital document specifies a representation of the dig... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7336827 | System, process and software arrangement for recognizing handwritten characters A process and system are provided for determining a most likely combination of characters. In particular, character data which includes information indicative of at least one handwritten character is obtained. The character data includes at least one set of segmenta... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7292726 | Recognition of electronic ink with late strokes A method and apparatus relating to the recognition of free-form data input is disclosed. The method involves ordering writing strokes based upon spatial relationships between the strokes, and partitioning the strokes into segments. The segments are then ordered base... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287697 | Optical reader having a color imager The present invention relates to an optical reader that includes a color imaging assembly that generates color imaging data. There is described an optical reader that can associate an acquired color image with additional data. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286691 | Devices and methods for biometric authentication The present invention relates to devices and a method for biometric authentication by means of reference data stored in a memory of a portable data carrier. For biometric authentication methods to make their final breakthrough with respect to more widespread ... | 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 |
| 7263211 | Information processing apparatus and method, computer-readable memory, and program An information processing apparatus detects the sampling rate of a coordinate input device, and standardizes the writing data which is input from the coordinate input device based on the detected sampling rate. The standardized writing data is further used for signa... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7257259 | Lossless variable-bit signature compression Apparatus and methods for compressing data points. The invention compresses the representation of a sequence of points in a space by, for example, dividing the sequence of points into segments of successive points and then compressing each of the segments irrespecti... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7239727 | Method and device for verifying a person's identity by signature analysis A method of verifying identity which includes recording coordinates of a reference signature which include two dimensional space coordinates x and y exerted by a writer's writing instrument on a recording medium. The method measures and records an indicium, which id... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7225979 | Methods and systems for object identification and interaction A method of facilitating an interaction between a user and a product item, the product item having an identity and the method including a number of steps. The first step involves providing the user with an interface surface associated with the product item and conta... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7206436 | Computer readable medium recording handwritten signature authentication program, and handwritten signature authentication method apparatus When a signature is registered, a signature in Japanese characters, for example, ‘’ (‘Fujitsu’), or a signature in English characters, for example, ‘Fujitsu’ is input n times through an input device of an input equipment of a signature authent... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197167 | Registration apparatus and method, as for voting Apparatus and method for registration comprises a computer and a server in communication via a network, an intranet and/or the Internet, means for entry of data into the computer, and a signature or biometric digitizer including coupling software for directly enteri... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197174 | Magnetic ink encoding pen In one embodiment, an information signal is stored in magnetic ink. In another embodiment, a magnetic ink encoding stylus includes a magnetic ink write head. In a further embodiment, a computer system includes a magnetic ink encoding stylus coupled to a computer via... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7184994 | Scaleable object recognition with a belief model An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is directed to a system, method and computer program product for providing an object recognition blackboard system architecture. The system for recognizing objects in content can include: a blackboard comprising a plu... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7178718 | Methods and systems for object identification and interaction A method of facilitating an interaction between a user and a product item, the product item having an identity and the method including a number of steps. The first step involves providing the user with an interface surface associated with the product item and conta... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7167988 | Information processing method and information processing apparatus A code stream and data indicating a normalization method are inputted to a normalization processing unit 21, and the normalization processing unit applies normalization processing to the code stream to generate a normalized code stream. Next, when signature d... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7156289 | Methods and systems for object identification and interaction A method of facilitating an interaction between a user and a product item, the product item having an identity and the method including a number of steps. The first step involves providing the user with an interface surface associated with the product item and conta... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7139431 | Signature capture via interface surface with coded marks A method of enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system via an interface surface and a sensing device. The interface surface contains information relating to the computer software and coded data indicative of a signature field relat... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133557 | Signature capture via interface surface and sensor with identifier A method of enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system via an interface surface and a sensing device. The interface surface contains information relating to the computer software and coded data indicative of a signature field relat... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7106888 | Signature capture via interface surface A method of enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system via an interface surface and a sensing device. The interface surface contains information relating to the computer software and coded data indicative of a signature field relat... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7093197 | Method, apparatus, and program for processing signature, and storage medium therefor A signature processing method determines, when displaying an input signature on a display unit, whether a predetermined condition is satisfied. When it is determined that the predetermined condition is satisfied, the signature on the display unit is displayed in a m... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7068829 | Method and apparatus for imaging samples A method for analysis of DNA data. A DNA source image is generated based on the DNA data. A digital bit-map is created from the DNA source image plotting image intensity data against a two-dimensional coordinate system from an initial viewpoint. An image model is ge... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062074 | Method of processing X-ray images A method of processing an X-ray image of articles contained in a transilluminated object and made visible for an observer on a monitor screen, includes the following steps: Placing individual markings about the image of certain, previously determined articles and au... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7040795 | Fiber optic Christmas tree stand A Christmas tree stand has a base for supporting the stand above a ground level and a shell having a lateral surface. The shell is disposed atop the base so as to define an inner volume and the shell houses electrical components within the inner volume. The shell ha... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7020308 | Personal authentication system using biometrics information A personal authentication system using biometrics information, which identifies or authenticates an individual by verifying to-be-verified biometrics characteristic data against previously registered biometrics characteristic data. The system includes a biometrics i... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7010147 | Signature capture via interface surface using processing sensor A method of enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system via an interface surface and a sensing device. The interface surface contains information relating to the computer software and coded data indicative of a signature field relat... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6973204 | Signature collation apparatus, signature collation method, and program which causes computer to execute the method It is controlled by a non-transformation coefficient calculated by a non-transformation calculation section, whether feedback is performed or not. When the feedback is ended, a collation value calculation section calculates a collation value (coincidence coefficient... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970581 | Information processing apparatus and method, computer-readable memory, and program An information processing apparatus detects the sampling rate of a coordinate input device, and standardizes the writing data which is input from the coordinate input device based on the detected sampling rate. The standardized writing data is further used for signa... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6966495 | Devices method and computer program for position determination A device, a method and a computer program for position determination are provided. The device comprises a processing means for determining a position on a surface on the basis of an image of a position-coding pattern on the surface. The processing means is arranged ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6959564 | Panty construction with moisture management liner A panty construction having improved moisture management. The panty construction includes a body portion having a waist opening, a front section and a back section, a crotch section, and a panty liner. The panty liner is formed from a knitted fabric comprising alter... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6950538 | Signature recognition system and method A method of authenticating a signature including the steps of sampling a signature and storing data representative of the signature, converting the data to high dimensions vectors, feeding the high dimension vectors to an unsupervised neural network, performing a hi... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6943935 | Dispersion-managed cable for raman-assisted transmission An apparatus for transporting an optical signal is provided. The apparatus includes sections of optical fiber span with at least one section negative dispersion, negative slope fiber positioned at a distance from the output. A pump light emitting device optically co... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6907529 | Document management system A computer network system has a document data storage system for storing an electronic document having therein a signature image in association with a signer ID number, and an attest data storage system for storing an attest data including a registered signature ima... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6823204 | Method of imaging the blood flow in a vascular tree The invention relates to a method of imaging a vascular tree that yields additional information concerning the vascular tree. To this end, a sequence of clusters is determined from spatially coherent voxels in the three-dimensional image of the vascular tree, the se... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6810136 | System and method for automatic preparation of data repositories from microfilm-type materials A system and a method for the conversion of archived documents to a digital format and storage of the data extracted in repositories which may be easily extracted and searched by a user over a network such as the Internet. The data is preferably stored in the form o... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6744915 | Image identification apparatus and method of identifying images An image identification apparatus for identifying an image from a sequence of spatial samples generated in response to a hand drawn representation of the image, the image identification apparatus comprising a segment processor arranged in operation to determine from... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6587577 | On-line signature verification A method of determining whether a test sample belongs to the same individual as a plurality of reference samples. The method includes providing respective values of one or more identifying features from the test sample and the plurality of reference sampl... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6475023 | Surface mount holding feature An electrical connector having a metal plate which is mounted under the housing with hot riveting. Location pegs are made so that low mounting force is possible. A wafer which is black in color or has another contrasting color makes it possible for a vide... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6434254 | Method and apparatus for image-based object detection and tracking A method and apparatus for detecting objects from a sequence of images of a scene containing an object by using two distinct methods for object detection. One is suited for well-lit scenes (e.g., daytime), while the other is suitable for poorly-lit scenes... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6393138 | Method of creating registration signature data for computerized signature collation scheme A method of creating registration signature data for a computerized signature collation scheme. A plurality of signature data sets are averaged in order to calculate a candidate set of registration signature data. The candidate set of registration signatu... | 05/21/2002 |