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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111911 | System and methods for arabic text recognition based on effective arabic text feature extraction A method for automatically recognizing Arabic text includes digitizing a line of Arabic characters to form a two-dimensional array of pixels each associated with a pixel value, wherein the pixel value is expressed in a binary number, dividing the line of the Arabic ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7983478 | Hidden markov model based handwriting/calligraphy generation An exemplary method for handwritten character generation includes receiving one or more characters and, for the one or more received characters, generating handwritten characters using Hidden Markov Models trained for generating handwritten characters. In such a met... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7885456 | Symbol graph generation in handwritten mathematical expression recognition A forward pass through a sequence of strokes representing a handwritten equation is performed from the first stroke to the last stroke in the sequence. At each stroke, a path score is determined for a plurality of symbol-relation pairs that each represents a symbol ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7447350 | Color difference judgment apparatus and method The present invention is related to a color difference judgment apparatus for judging a color difference between a first color and a second color in RGB color space. The method is comprising: distance calculating means for calculating distance between the first and ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7373291 | Linguistic support for a recognizer of mathematical expressions The present invention provides a new source of information, linguistic models, to improve the accuracy of mathematical recognition. Specifically, the present invention is an extension of linguistic methods to the mathematical domain thereby providing recognition of ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369702 | Template-based cursive handwriting recognition Input handwritten characters are classified as print or cursive based upon numerical feature values calculated from the shape of an input character. The feature values are applied to inputs of an artificial neural network which outputs a probability of the input cha... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7324990 | Real time relevancy determination system and a method for calculating relevancy of real time information A system and method for determining relevancy of real time received terms, the method includes the steps of: determining relevancy keywords; extracting real time terms from currently received information streams; updating current reception patterns of relevancy keyw... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7308134 | Pattern recognition with hierarchical networks Within the frameworks of hierarchical neural feed-forward architectures for performing real-world 3D invariant object recognition a technique is proposed that shares components like weight-sharing (2), and pooling stages (3, 5) with earlier approaches,... | 12/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7286699 | System and method facilitating pattern recognition A system and method facilitating pattern recognition is provided. The invention includes a pattern recognition system having a convolutional neural network employing feature extraction layer(s) and classifier layer(s). The feature extraction layer(s) comprises convo... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286687 | Method for generating learning and/or sample probes In the present invention information is first defined as a complete description of the meaning of the content, in addition to the required layout of the characters, words, delivery addresses or images of the entire delivery surface, which contains the delivery addre... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7257528 | Method and apparatus for Chinese character text input A method and apparatus for inputting Chinese character text into a machine such as a word processor or personal computer. The system consists of an apparatus which forms a closed feedback loop with the operator. The operator supplies stroke selections and other data... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7246292 | Apparatus and method for bit pattern learning and computer product A computer calculates bit patterns of syndromes for all candidate bit patterns of reception words that are input in ECC-EOR circuits of a logic circuit. The bit patterns of the syndromes are stored as possible bit patterns. Request bit patterns are propagated when a... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7231059 | Image processing apparatus, method and storage medium therefor When image information for the purpose of being printed out has been entered, whether or not the image information contains a mark image such as a watermark is determined to such an extent that will not lower the throughput of a printer. To accomplish this, the imag... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7216116 | Data analysis system with automated query and visualization environment setup A primary graphical input device such as a scroll bar or slider is displayed in order to allow graphical input and adjustment of at least one parameter, such as the page number of a displayed document in a word-processing program or a range value in a data visualiza... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7147473 | Hand-writing practicing system A hand-writing practicing system is comprised of a computer with a screen that can sense the movement of a stylus on it, and software the displays to the user original script in hand-writing, record the stylus movement as user-writing and display it on top of the or... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7124130 | Word string collating apparatus, word string collating method and address recognition apparatus The present invention is directed to an address recognition apparatus for recognizing a written address. The apparatus includes an input device that receives a scanned image of the written address and transforms the image into digital data, a character recognizing s... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110621 | Assist channel coding using a rewrite model A system encodes a separate assist channel that carries only a small amount of additional information in a hardcopy document to compensate for failure of an OCR system to accurately reconstruct a scanned electronic version of the hardcopy document. After the OCR sys... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7099860 | Image retrieval systems and methods with semantic and feature based relevance feedback An image retrieval system performs both keyword-based and content-based image retrieval. A user interface allows a user to specify queries using a combination of keywords and examples images. Depending on the input query, the image retrieval system finds images with... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093104 | Processing modules for computer architecture for broadband networks A computer architecture and programming model for high speed processing over broadband networks are provided. The architecture employs a consistent modular structure, a common computing module and uniform software cells. The common computing module includes a contro... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7020611 | User interface selectable real time information delivery system and method An information delivery system including a client device and server interconnected by a network passes data files in accordance with a well known protocol. The server creates an audio version of a displayed page associated with a first data file. The audio version i... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016529 | System and method facilitating pattern recognition A system and method facilitating pattern recognition is provided. The invention includes a pattern recognition system having a convolutional neural network employing feature extraction layer(s) and classifier layer(s). The feature extraction layer(s) comprises convo... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6998721 | Stacking and encapsulation of multiple interconnected integrated circuits In one embodiment, a device includes but is not limited to: a first integrated circuit affixed to a substrate; an electronic circuit component affixed to the substrate; a first encapsulation structure encasing the first integrated circuit; a second integrated circui... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6978046 | Systems and methods for automated template creation using scanned input An automated document template creation method comprises: inputing data of an existing document that contains a visual design to input an image; decomposing the image into at least one object using at least one image processing technique; determining at least one de... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6959434 | Method of determining the syntactic correctness of expressions The present invention is a method (100) of determining the syntactic correctness of an expression for use in a computing environment. After creating (30) a string of characters from said expression, it looks for substrings (character sequences), which ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6956962 | System and method of signal processing for use in reading data A method of signal processing for use in reading data includes determining first and second waveforms, determining a cross-correlation of the first waveform with the second waveform, and determining a specific time delay corresponding to a maximum peak in the cross-... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6952666 | Ranking parser for a natural language processing system A natural language parse ranker of a natural language processing (NLP) system employs a goodness function to rank the possible grammatically valid parses of an utterance. The goodness function generates a statistical goodness measure (SGM) for each valid parse. The ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6948654 | Data sheet and information management system using data sheet A data sheet is composed of an upper part and a lower part. The upper part is used as a user interface including a reduced image of contents of a document. The lower part is an interface for a reading device such as a copy machine, including a code obtained by encod... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6935562 | Operations on images having glyph carpets A system and method for generating information based on decoded embedded data from a substrate is implemented by reading embedded data from a substrate, decoding the embedded data to determine registration of the substrate relative to a reference in an apparatus, an... | 08/30/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6690821 | Determining the font of text in an image Systems and methods are provided for automatically determining the font of text in a captured document image. Sequences of turns (left, right, straight) around the boundaries of connected components of black pixels in the captured document image are deter... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6636631 | Optical character reading method and system for a document with ruled lines and its application A method of recognizing characters of a document including ruled lines. After separating the characters from the ruled lines, a bounding box and a corresponding character pattern are extracted for each character (hereinafter, "the character"). Contour inf... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6480621 | Statistical classifier with reduced weight memory requirements A neural network has reduced requirements for storing intermodal weight values, as a result of a dual-precision training process. In the forward propagation of training samples, low-resolution weight values are employed. During back-propagation of errors ... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6363171 | Apparatus for recognizing alphanumeric characters An alphanumeric character image recognition system includes a first stage comprising at least a first, second and third digital image signal processing network having each at least one input terminal and at least one output terminal and said networks bein... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6252988 | Method and apparatus for character recognition using stop words An adaptive OCR technique for character classification and recognition without the input and use of ground truth derived from the image itself. A set of so-called stop words are employed for classifying symbols, e.g., characters, from any image. The stop ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6208755 | Method and apparatus for developing a character recognition dictionary A pattern recognizing apparatus which recognizes patterns on the basis of a recognition dictionary includes a frequency information updating device for updating a plurality of items of frequency information, respectively assigned to a plurality of referen... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6195459 | Zone segmentation for image display The present invention provides a method and apparatus for detecting in an image text-like portions and non-text-like portions. The method includes the steps of establishing a set of fuzzy detection rules for distinguishing text-like portions of an image f... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6092065 | Method and apparatus for discovery, clustering and classification of patterns in 1-dimensional event streams The present invention groups character sequences by identifying a sequence of characters. A set of internal repeats in said sequence of characters is identified by a pattern discovery technique. For at least one internal repeat belonging to the set of int... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088124 | Color image processing apparatus and method A color image recording apparatus capable of reducing a memory area for storing input image data by storing the image data after converting them into indexes with a bit length shorter than that of the image data. It is decided whether or not color informa... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5966460 | On-line learning for neural net-based character recognition systems A neural network based improving the performance of an omni-font classifier by using recognized characters for additional training is presented. The invention applies the outputs of the hidden layer nodes of the neural net as the feature vector. Character... | 10/12/1999 |
