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| 8184907 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus A CG image having a transparency parameter is superimposed on a shot image, which is an image picked up by an image-pickup device, to obtain a combined image. The combined image is displayed in a combined-image-display region. In the combined image, a mask region of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8126270 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for performing region segmentation processing An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a document image, a primary region segmentation unit configured to segment the acquired document image into a plurality of regions, a detection unit configured to detect a text region i... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7865016 | Method for additive character recognition and an apparatus thereof A method for recognition of a handwritten pattern comprising one or more curves is presented. The method comprises a step of receiving sample data representing the handwritten pattern. The method further comprises a step of segmenting the handwritten pattern by dete... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7680329 | Character recognition apparatus and character recognition method A character recognition apparatus generates each character candidate from a character string written in a plurality of character entry boxes written on a sheet of paper such as a business form, and performs character recognition. A row image separating unit acquires... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7657091 | Method for automatic removal of text from a signature area The present invention provides a method for processing a document involving the automatic removal of text from a predetermined area of a document, the method comprising inputting a bitmap containing the predetermined area of the document from which the text will be ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7359530 | Object-based raster trapping Trapping graphics during pre-press workflow involves intensive computation. In this invention, the trapping engine uses simple bounding boxes, colors, and temporal order information, to eliminate the possibility of trapping many pairs of objects without ever having ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7343413 | Method and system for optimizing a network by independently scaling control segments and data flow A server array controller that includes a Data Flow Segment (DFS) and at least one Control Segment (CS). The DFS includes the hardware-optimized portion of the controller, while the CS includes the software-optimized portions. The DFS performs most of the repetitive... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339701 | Method for darkness correction of trapped pixels A method for correcting for edge defects caused by print characteristics of a print engine includes printing a set of actual color patches corresponding to a desired set of colors; defining an edge region and a uniform area region in each of the patches; for each co... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330600 | Image processing device estimating black character color and ground color according to character-area pixels classified into two classes A character area is extracted from an original image, which is a digital image, according to a feature value calculated with respect to the original image. Pixels belonging to the extracted character area are classified into a first class and a second class accordin... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7320104 | Text grid creation tools Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling typesetting and layout editing (2a). Data being typeset or laid out are displayed on a display (3). A first menu (20) having a u... | 01/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7295344 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus, program and recording medium, and image forming apparatus A parameter representing whether an effective density pixel exists in an objective image is calculated. As to each interest pixel in the objective image having one pixel neighboring a downstream side in a first direction, the interest pixel is defined as an effectiv... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295206 | Ink input region adjustments Aspects of the present invention relate to the creation of an ink font. Based on characteristics of handwritten characters, the collection of characters may be scaled so as to adjust the size of the font to match predefined size values or relationships. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283669 | Fine segmentation refinement for an optical character recognition system A method and computer program product are disclosed for refining character segmentation in an optical character recognition system receiving as input a plurality of candidate objects. Each candidate object below a threshold character width is merged with another can... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7263228 | Apparatus and method for detecting a pattern A method for detecting a specific pattern contained in an image. The pattern-detection method has steps of binarizing the input image data to obtain binary image data, recognizing a partial image that is contained in the binary image data, is part of the specific pa... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259752 | Method and system for editing electronic ink A computer-implemented method and system for erasing and editing an electronic document. A goal for computing devices that support the use of a stylus that can record handwriting strokes and present them in an electronic document is to present electronic ink that be... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257253 | Apparatus and method of analyzing layout of document, and computer product In an apparatus for analyzing a layout of a document, a character candidate element generator generates character candidate elements from black pixel linkage components of a document image. A horizontally oriented line rectangle generator sets a plurality of charact... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7233697 | Character recognition device and a method therefor The present invention relates to an optical character recognition device (OCR) for reading a form provided with character frames in reading fields, into which a user fills each character. Characteristic vectors are extracted from the character images of each frame. ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7218779 | Ink divider and associated application program interface Methods for communicating between an application and an ink divider object (which stores ink strokes to be divided into groups) may include: (a) issuing a divide request to the ink divider object, optionally by the application; (b) in response to the divide request,... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7203903 | System and methods for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting, printing and drawings A system for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting and printing comprises a central processing unit that couples with a display device, an input device, and a memory. The memory includes means for spacing ink stroke representatio... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200268 | Image processing device An image processing device is structured such that an appropriate judgement of an image, at which blurring or disappearance or the like will occur, is possible. When pixels, which form a line image at which there is the possibility that blurring or disappearance wil... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7188309 | Resolving document object collisions Collisions between document objects on a document page are resolved. A collision is identified and a two-dimension resolution of the collision is provided by moving the object the shortest distance from a pre-collision location that would avoid the collision. The pr... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185278 | Separating and moving document objects using the movement of a wiper bar A tool is provided for managing the available space in an electronic document. The tool can be used to move document objects and/or expand the boundaries or margins of a page to enable the addition or expansion of one or more document objects. The tool also can be u... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7174042 | System and method for automatically recognizing electronic handwriting in an electronic document and converting to text A user can enter handwritten electronic ink into a writing guide on an electronic page of an electronic tablet. An ink processing module can display the handwritten electronic ink as it is rendered on the electronic page by the user. Upon the occurrence of a predefi... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168037 | Text composition spacing amount setting device with icon indicators Methods and apparatus for setting a text composition spacing amount for a DTP system. At least one inter-character-class spacing amount setting table, for use in line composition, groups similar characters, forms a plurality of character classes and sets inter-chara... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7149352 | Image processing device, program product and system A computer 10 having a function as an image processing device includes an output format judgment unit that makes a judgment after recognizing character code for character images in the input image data whether the character image should be converted into char... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146354 | Method and system for network load balancing with a compound data structure The invention provides for employing a complex data structure to optimize the retrieval of data from a data store over a network. The complex data structure includes two separate sub-data structures (Trie and List) that separately reference the same data objects in ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7133558 | Device processing a table image, a memory medium storing a processing program, and a table management processing method A table image processing device processes a table image and a memory medium stores a processing program. The table image processing device processes precisely a table image containing a round corner and includes a device extracting a line extracting a longitudinal l... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7116821 | Color trapping for an image forming apparatus The present invention is directed a method of color trapping. In one embodiment, the color trapping is performed during the rasterization process. The color trapping comprises identifying page objects into a variety of different categories. Color trapping for each o... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113962 | Method and system for automatically updating content stored on servers connected by a network A system and computer implementable method for updating content on servers coupled to a network. The method includes updating an origin server with a version of files used to provide content, retrieving data that indicates an action to be performed on one or more ca... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7096425 | Dictionary apparatus for preparing and displaying form with keyword entries from entered word string An information entry apparatus and an information entry system provided with that apparatus which enable the efficient entry of required information in real time in a plurality of corresponding fields of a screen by an information entry operation of a level of simpl... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095875 | Method and system for address result arbitration A method to arbitrate between results obtained from observationally derived data by several procedures, where the results are items characteristic of the observationally derived data is disclosed. Each procedure is given a ranking according to the confidence on the ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095891 | Pattern segmentation apparatus and pattern recognition apparatus A pattern segmentation apparatus and a pattern recognition apparatus can improve the segmentation precision of a character touching pattern. The pattern segmentation apparatus includes a feature amount extraction unit for extracting the feature amount of an image, a... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085420 | Text detection in continuous tone image segments For encoding of mixed-mode images containing text and continuous-tone content, the pixels in the image that form the text content are detected and separated. Text detection classifies pixels as text or continuous tone content by accumulating pixel counts for groups ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7072513 | Method of segmenting handwritten touching numeral strings having non-vertical segmentation line Disclosed is a method of segmenting handwritten touching numeral strings having a non-vertical segmentation line. The method comprises the steps of: receiving an image of the handwritten touching numeral strings having the non-vertical segmentation line extracted fr... | 07/04/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
