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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8144989 | Methods and systems for identifying text orientation in a digital image Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for determining text orientation in a digital image. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8098934 | Using extracted image text Methods, systems, and apparatus including computer program products for using extracted image text are provided. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes receiving an input of one or more image search terms and identifyin... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086039 | Fine-grained visual document fingerprinting for accurate document comparison and retrieval A method and system generates fine-grained fingerprints for identifying content in a rendered document. It includes applying image-based techniques to identify patterns in a document rendered by an electronic document rendering system, irrespective of a file format ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073255 | Keyword generation process An apparatus includes a content acquisition unit configured to acquire content data contained in image data, an extraction unit configured to extract a keyword from the image data, a setting unit configured to set acceptance or rejection of modification of the keywo... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8059896 | Character recognition processing system and computer readable medium storing program for character recognition processing A character recognition processing system includes a character recognition confidence evaluating unit that evaluates whether confidence of character recognition of a plurality of areas are low or high, a character area classification unit that classifies a first are... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8036464 | System and method for automatic segmentation of ASR transcripts Text segmentation based on topic boundary detection has been an industry problem in automating information dissemination to targeted users. A system for automatic segmentation of ASR output text involves boundary identification based on “topic” changes. The prop... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8019158 | Method and computer program product for recognition error correction data A method for altering a recognition error correction data structure, the method includes: altering at least one key out of a set of semantically similar keys in response to text appearance probabilities of keys of the set of semantically similar keys to provide an a... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014604 | OCR of books by word recognition Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide automated global optimization methods and systems of OCR, tailored to each document being digitized. A document-specific database is created from an OCR scan of a document of interest, which contains an exhaustive listi... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014603 | System and method for characterizing handwritten or typed words in a document A method of characterizing a word image includes traversing the word image stepwise with a window to provide a plurality of window images. For each of the plurality of window images, the method includes splitting the window image to provide a plurality of cells. A f... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7949187 | Character string recognition method and device A character string recognition method for recognizing a character string may include a first step in which a first projection data of image data are calculated in a direction of the character string and a second step in which a position of the character string is de... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7894670 | Triggering actions in response to optically or acoustically capturing keywords from a rendered document A system for processing text captured from rendered documents is described. The system receives a sequence of one or more words optically or acoustically captured from a rendered document by a user. The system identifies among words of the sequence a word with which... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7873216 | Distortion correction of a scanned image Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for eliminating or reducing the distortion in a scanned image. In embodiments, the image is segmented into foreground and background pixels. Foreground pixels may be grouped into “letters.” Using index-based searc... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7813550 | Image processing method, image processing program, and storage medium with a prescribed data format to delete information not desired The object of this invention is to reduce the effort of deleting and information symbol from a read image. To accomplish this, an image of a document with an information symbol is read (S100), and the information symbol is identified in the read image (S13... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7697758 | Shape clustering and cluster-level manual identification in post optical character recognition processing Techniques for shape clustering and applications in processing various documents, including an output of an optical character recognition (OCR) process. ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7596270 | Method of shuffling text in an Asian document image A method, system, and computer-readable medium containing computer-executable instructions are provided, for randomly relocating text character images of a scanned-in Asian character document to produce a shuffled image, wherein the meaning of text in the shuffled i... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7596269 | Triggering actions in response to optically or acoustically capturing keywords from a rendered document A system for processing text captured from rendered documents is described. The system receives a sequence of one or more words optically or acoustically captured from a rendered document by a user. The system identifies among words of the sequence a word with which... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7593572 | Ink-parser-parameter optimization Ink-parser-parameter optimization may be performed via parallel processing to accelerate searching for a set of optimal ink-parser parameters. Evaluators may parse pages of ink notes with different groups of parameters and may compute corresponding values for evalua... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7532756 | Grayscale character dictionary generation apparatus A grayscale character dictionary generation apparatus, comprising a first synthetic grayscale degraded character image generation unit for generating first synthetic grayscale degraded character images using binary character images inputted therein; a clustering uni... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7437001 | Method and device for recognition of a handwritten pattern A method for recognition of a handwritten pattern comprises the steps of forming (4) a representation of the handwritten pattern, forming (6) at least two subconfigurations by dividing the representation of the handwritten pattern, and processing the s... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436994 | System of using neural network to distinguish text and picture in images and method thereof This specification discloses a system of using a neural network to distinguish text and pictures in an image and the method thereof. Using the knowledge of text recognition learned by the neural network in advance, images data of color brightness and gray levels in ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430497 | Statistical model for global localization A system and process for determining the location of a captured image from a larger image is described. Using a list of determined locations, the system is able to determine the best or most likely path of a pen tip. ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428335 | Method of extracting contour of image, method of extracting object from image, and video transmission system using the same method An object extraction method comprising the steps of comparing each portion of first image data obtained by capturing an extraction object with another portion of the first image data or second image data, thereby generating shape data as an image representing a prov... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7412095 | 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... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403656 | Method and apparatus for recognition of character string in scene image A character recognition method that is robust under an unknown illumination condition is provided. An apparatus for realizing such robust character recognition includes plural different binarization, means for synthesizing character sub-image candidates that have be... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400768 | Enhanced optical recognition of digitized images through selective bit insertion The present invention describes a process for enhancing optical recognition of text in scanned documents. Prior to performing optical recognition for identification of text in scanned documents, a preprocessing algorithm identifies locations of noncontiguity in char... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7391419 | Information distribution system An information distribution system configured to deliver various types of content provided by an information distributor to information receivers through a network and transmitting the content to be distributed converted to colors, color values, or color digital val... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7352897 | Method and means for dividing an image into character image lines, and method and apparatus for character image recognition A method for dividing a character image into lines, comprising the following steps: segment-dividing step for, in term of pixels, dividing a character image into a plurality of character image segments arranged sided by side, each segment having a predetermined widt... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340109 | Automated statistical self-calibrating detection and removal of blemishes in digital images dependent upon changes in extracted parameter values A method of automatically correcting dust artifact within images acquired by a system including a digital camera includes determining that certain pixels correspond to dust artifact regions within a first digitally-acquired image. The dust artifact regions are assoc... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336386 | Image processor including a data compression unit having a switch and image processing method thereof The image processor comprises a switch that divides image data into m×n pixels, having n lines with m pixels per one line; a group of line memories that store the divided image; a compression device which batch compresses the image data of m×n pixels. Further, a c... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336378 | Image processing with recognized character codes In an image processor for a character image included in an image data to be processed, character codes are recognized, and character sizes of the characters in the character image are recognized. A font data is selected in a plurality of font data of different sizes... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7327881 | Image reading apparatus A labeling process unit groups a continuous black pixel area as one group in the binary image data read by an image input device, and extracts the group bounding rectangle information about the group. A row extracting process unit extracts row rectangle information ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324692 | Character recognition method The present invention is a character recognition apparatus, which comprises a background discriminating section, a non-character line discriminating section, a first non-character line removed image creating section that creates a first non-character line removed im... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321688 | Image processor for character recognition In image processing of a document having image data of a document including an image with character images on a background image, the character images and the background image thereof are separated. First, areas in correspondence to the character images from the ima... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313277 | Method and device for recognition of a handwritten pattern A method for recognition of a handwritten pattern comprises the steps of forming (4) a representation of the handwritten pattern, forming (6) at least two sub-configurations by dividing the representation of the handwritten pattern, and processing the ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307760 | Raster image path architecture A raster image path architecture having the capacity for supporting the rendering and output of a device-independent grayscale raster image, while also offering the capacity for supporting the rendering and output of a device-dependent binary raster image, thus offe... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305435 | Internet access via smartphone camera A mobile device, system, method, and software for communicating with the internet utilizing a written universal resource locator (URL). A camera unit is used to receive a raw visual light image containing a written URL, the raw visual light image is converted to an ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302098 | Character segmentation method and apparatus An electronic device (1100) and a method for character segmentation (100) includes an image analyzer (1110) that generates individual character images. The image analyzer binarizes (115) a gray scale image (200) of a horizontal row... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296058 | Systems and methods for managing email The invention provides for systematic email induction. Email is automatically scanned for email content. The content is then extracted and automatically loaded to a graphics database accessible from a network. The graphics database may for example be a FileNet repos... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295710 | System and method for automated symbolic recognition including symbolic modeling An automated symbolic recognition system and method includes pre-stored symbolic models to support a three phase symbolic reshaping scheme during the symbol recognition process that includes: (a) deriving dissimilarity level from alphanumeric ID's net topological va... | 11/13/2007 |
