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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180152 | System, method, and computer program product for determining whether text within an image includes unwanted data, utilizing a matrix A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining whether text within an image includes unwanted data, utilizing a matrix. In operation, a matrix corresponding to an image is generated. Additionally, text within the image is identified util... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180153 | 3+1 layer mixed raster content (MRC) images having a black text layer A method, system and data structure for providing a 3+1 layer MRC image, including a black text layer. The black text layer includes pixel data corresponding to black text in an image and may be assigned a predetermined value for the color of black. According to one... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175386 | Image acquiring apparatus and control method thereof An image acquiring apparatus includes: an image sensor which senses light reflected from an object to be read, and which detects an analog pixel value corresponding to the sensed reflected light; and a compensator which compensates the analog pixel value in its anal... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8155445 | Image processing apparatus, method, and processing program for image inversion with tree structure The present invention relates to an image processing method, an image processing apparatus and an image processing program for dealing with inverted characters (outlined characters) constituted by white pixels on a black ground in a tree structure same as that of no... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155444 | Image text to character information conversion Converting text may be provided. A user selectable element may be used to select a text. The selected text may include a first text within an electronic document and a second text within an image. The second text within the image may be converted to character inform... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8121409 | Method for handling static text and logos in stabilized images To handle static text and logos in stabilized images without destabilizing the static text and logos, a method of handling overlay subpictures in stabilized images includes detecting an overlay subpicture in an input image, separating the overlay subpicture from the... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8103098 | Method for generating a non-graphical digital image from an original digital image A method for generating a non-graphical digital image from an original digital image includes the following steps: performing edge detection to generate a third digital image, performing screen dot detection to detect the photo regions in the original digital image,... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8086038 | Invisible junction features for patch recognition The present invention uses invisible junctions which are a set of local features unique to every page of the electronic document to match the captured image to a part of an electronic document. The present invention includes: an image capture device, a feature extra... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8059895 | Image processing apparatus An information embedding apparatus (100) which embeds information by changing the character spacing in a document image includes a discrimination unit (101) which discriminates a text area in the document image, a circumscribed rectangle extraction uni... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045801 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus segments an image into a plurality of regions in accordance with attributes of a plurality of types, and acquires feature amount data from image information of a region of a first attribute (an image region) from among the plurality of ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041117 | Image processing system, computer readable medium storing image processing program and computer data signal embedded with the image processing program An image processing system includes an image input section, a first character-extracting section, a second character-extracting section and a synthesizing section. The image input section inputs images which are linked to each other in time series manner. The first ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036463 | Character extracting apparatus, method, and program The present invention provides a technique of accurately extracting areas of characters included in a captured image. A character extracting device of the present invention extracts each character in an image with compensated pixel values. In more detail, the charac... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031941 | Image display apparatus, image display method, and image display program An image display apparatus is disclosed that includes an image projecting unit that projects a projection image on a projection screen, a written image capturing unit that captures a written image of a writing screen that is arranged opposite the projection screen, ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031940 | Recognizing text in images using ranging data Methods, systems, and apparatus including computer program products for recognizing text in images are provided. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method for recognizing text in an image is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of images. T... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8010564 | Logical structure analyzing apparatus, method, and computer product A logical structure analyzing apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts word candidates from a form, a first generating unit that classifies each of the word candidates into a group of heading candidates or a group of data candidates to generate, based on ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000529 | System and method for creating an editable template from a document image Embodiments of the present invention recite a system and method for creating an editable template from a document image. In one embodiment of the present invention, the spatial characteristics and the color characteristics of at least one region of a document are id... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991229 | Reducing compression artifacts in multi-layer images Disclosed are embodiments of systems, devices, and methods to reduce compression artifacts in multi-layer images. Pixel dilation operations, such as morphological dilations, are performed to identify unlabeled pixels at boundaries between layers, and the colors of t... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986837 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image distributing apparatus, image processing method, computer program product, and recording medium An image processing apparatus includes a binarizing unit, a determining unit, a counting unit, and a correcting unit. The binarizing unit binarizes image data based on density of the image data. The determining unit determines a pixel with high density as a characte... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983483 | Automatic character recognition system and computer product An image-data-acquisition control unit controls an image-data acquiring unit that acquires computer-recognizable image data, to accumulate the image data in a set of information units. A character-recognition control unit controls an optical character-recognizing un... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7965892 | Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and program A binary image is generated by binarizing a multilevel image. An edge image is generated by extracting an edge component in the multilevel image. The binary image is segmented into a plurality of regions with different attributes. An outline candidate of a halftone ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7903876 | Distortion correction of a captured image Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for eliminating or reducing the distortion in a scanned image. Embodiments of the present invention allow for the automatic pruning, de-skewing, and unwarping of an image using document layout information. In embodime... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899249 | Media material analysis of continuing article portions The present invention relates to systems and methods for analyzing media material having articles continuing across multiple pages. A media material analyzer includes a segmenter and an article composer. The segmenter identifies block segments associated with column... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899250 | Method and display system capable of detecting a scoreboard in a program A method capable of detecting a scoreboard in a program includes detecting a region which displays static images in a program having a plurality of frames, identifying the text contents of the region, and determining whether the variation in the text contents is lar... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894669 | Foreground detection A system is disclosed that can find an image of a foreground object in a still image or video image. Finding the image of the foreground object can be used to reduce errors and reduce the time needed when creating morphs of an image. One implementation uses the dete... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7876959 | Methods and systems for identifying text in digital images Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for detection of text in an image using an initial text classification result and a verification process. In particular, a support region of a candidate text pixel in a text-candidate map may be... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7848572 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program An image processing method according to the present invention includes extracting from a document image an area to be determined, calculating the number of closed loops within the extracted area, and making a determination based on the calculated number of closed lo... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840071 | Method and apparatus for identifying regions of different content in an image A method of identifying regions of different content in an image comprises dividing image data into a plurality of pixel blocks, extracting features of the pixel blocks and classifying the content of the pixel blocks based on extracted features. Extracting comprises... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835578 | Automated video-to-text system A method for transforming Video-To-Text is disclosed that automatically generates text descriptions of the content of a video. The present invention first segments an input video sequence according to predefined semantic classes using a Mixture-of-Experts blob segme... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831093 | Method for calculating and adjusting photo and text separation performance This invention relates to a method for calculating and adjusting photo and text separation performance. The method for calculating photo and text separation performance comprises a step of generating a standard block attribute file and a step of comparing a photo an... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7817855 | System and method for detecting text in real-world color images A method and apparatus for detecting text in real-world images comprises calculating a cascade of classifiers, the cascade comprising a plurality of stages, each stage including one or more weak classifiers, the plurality of stages organized to start out with classi... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809192 | System and method for recognizing objects from images and identifying relevancy amongst images and information An embodiment provides for enabling retrieval of a collection of captured images that form at least a portion of a library of images. For each image in the collection, a captured image may be analyzed to recognize information from image data contained in the capture... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7792362 | Reformatting documents using document analysis information A method and apparatus for reformatting electronic documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing layout analysis on an electronic version of a document to locate text zones, assigning attributes for scale and importance to text zones in ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787693 | Text detection on mobile communications devices A mobile communications device with an integrated camera is directed towards text. A video stream is analyzed in real time to detect one or more words in a specified region of the video frames and to indicate the detected words on a display. Users can select a word ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783108 | Document management method and apparatus A document management apparatus acquires block information of each page, which is obtained by executing block segmentation processing for each page of document data of a first version. A matched block and a mismatched block between the first version and a second ver... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7756333 | Document layout verification A test document is parsed into components which may include bounding boxes, segments, and points. Test code makes calls to properties and methods of components in order to verify document layout. Rather than take absolute measurements of component placement, compone... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7738703 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer readable medium storing image processing program An image processing apparatus includes: a first memory that stores a first document file; a second memory that stores a second document file obtained by revising the first document file; an extraction unit that extracts a revised area of the second document file bas... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7724955 | Apparatus and method for auto windowing using multiple white thresholds Methods and apparatus for segmenting image data into windows and rendering a best-estimate outline delineating document windows may include adjusting a background white threshold differently than adjusting a white threshold normally used to classify pixels as white ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7715628 | Precise grayscale character segmentation apparatus and method Precise grayscale character segmentation apparatus and method. The precise grayscale character segmentation apparatus comprises an adjustment and segmentation unit for adjusting and segmenting an inputted low resolution text line image undergone coarse segmentation,... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711189 | Layout analysis program, layout analysis apparatus and layout analysis method A layout analysis program, a layout analysis apparatus, layout analysis method and a medium can highly accurately extract a text block from an image if the image is a color image. The layout analysis program causes a computer to execute a divided region extracting s... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7702154 | Method and apparatus indentifying halftone regions within a digital image One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that identifies halftone regions within a digital image. During operation, the system receives a region from the digital image, wherein the digital image is a bi-level image, wherein each pixel has two possib... | 04/20/2010 |
