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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170338 | Information processing apparatus and method for correcting electronic information obtained from handwritten information A disclosed information processing apparatus includes an image data obtaining unit configured to obtain image data generated by scanning a confirmation/correction form on a recording medium; a workflow definition obtaining unit configured to obtain a workflow defini... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7925088 | System, method and apparatus for automatic segmentation and analysis of ink stream A technique that provides for real-time segmentation of hand written traces during data entry into a computer. In one example embodiment, this is achieved by computing a current trace bounding contour as a function of a drawn current trace. A current selection bound... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7873217 | System for line extraction in digital ink A system for line extraction in digital ink. The digital ink represents handwritten input and is comprised of a stroke sequence. The system comprises a processor configured for: receiving the digital ink from a pen device; segmenting the strokes into a sequence of s... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7860313 | Methods and apparatuses for extending dynamic handwriting recognition to recognize static handwritten and machine generated text A method for recognizing a character string on a static document is disclosed. The character string is extracted from the static document. The character string is converted into a representative character string graph. The common embedded isomorphic graphs are extra... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7630551 | Method and system for line extraction in digital ink A method and system of line extraction in a digital ink sequence of handwritten text data points is provided in which a stroke sequence comprised of a sequence of strokes is obtained, the strokes are segmented into a sequence of substrokes by applying a stroke segme... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7526128 | Line extraction in digital ink A method and system of line extraction in a digital ink sequence of handwritten text data points, the method including the steps of: obtaining are provided in which a stroke sequence comprised of a sequence of are strokes is obtained, the strokes are segmented into ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526129 | Lifting ink annotations from paper A computer-implemented system for obtaining ink annotations from paper comprises a comparator that compares an initial electronic version of a document with an electronic image of an annotated version of the document to identify a handwritten annotation. The system ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7424156 | Recognition method and the same system of ingegrating vocal input and handwriting input The present invention relates to a recognition method integrating vocal input and handwriting input. After receiving a vocal input of an object alphanumeric symbol, the system will recognize the input vocal signal and generate a alphanumeric symbol array having a pl... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415667 | Generating augmented notes and synchronizing notes and document portions based on timing information Techniques for generating a paper document that integrates notes written by a user and different types of captured or recorded information. A user can take written notes during an information communication event. While taking the notes, the user can identify, from i... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7397950 | Handwriting layout analysis of freeform digital ink input Electronic ink layout analysis systems and methods provide flexibility and efficiency in organizing, analyzing, and processing digital ink. These layout analysis systems and methods allow users substantial freedom in entering electronic ink into a pen-based computer... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394934 | 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... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7372993 | Gesture recognition A gesture related to portions of handwritten text is recognized. Furthermore, an action is performed against the portions of the handwritten text. The action is associated with the recognized gesture. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366757 | Communication apparatus, communication method, communication system, and storage medium Image data communication equivalent to facsimile communication using a public network is realized on e-mail communication. When a communication apparatus for transmitting/receiving e-mail data by connecting to the Internet is to communicate e-mail data having facsim... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7322008 | Organizing, editing, and rendering digital ink A pen-based computing system supports organizing, editing, and rendering handwritten digital ink. A given page of text may include several word flows, but the flows may be prevented from overlapping one another, and each word and stroke may be assigned to only one f... | 01/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7305369 | Method and apparatus for producing three dimensional shapes A method and system for automatically producing data representative of a modified head shape from data representative of a deformed head is provided. The method includes a step of processing captured data for the deformed head utilizing Principal Component Analysis ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292247 | Dynamically determining directions of freedom for control points used to represent graphical objects The principles of the present invention relate to dynamically determining directions of freedom for control points used to represent graphical objects such as text. A computing system identifies a first function that represents a first constraint, solutions to the f... | 11/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7266769 | Organizing, editing, and rendering digital ink A pen-based computing system supports organizing, editing, and rendering handwritten digital ink. A given page of text may include several word flows, but the flows may be prevented from overlapping one another, and each word and stroke may be assigned to only one f... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7236174 | Adaptively filtering outlines of typographic characters to simplify representative control data The principles of the present invention relate to adaptively filtering outlines of typographic characters to simply representative control data. A filtering module receives a set of control points (and instructions for connecting the control points) representing a g... | 06/26/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7227993 | Learning-based system and process for synthesizing cursive handwriting A process and system for modeling, learning and synthesizing cursive handwriting in a user's personal handwriting style. The handwriting synthesis system and process described herein addresses the problem of learning the personal handwriting style of a user based on... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221795 | Document processing method, recording medium having recorded thereon document processing program, document processing program, document processing apparatus, and character-input document A character overlapping with a line of an entry box is extracted utilizing a dot box. At document input step S2, a document to be recognized is read and converted into electronic data to produce character box data. At electronic data storing step S3, t... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7187382 | Iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting language The principles of the present invention relate to iteratively solving constraints in a font-hinting language. A computing system accesses a more complex constraint that can not be natively expressed based on the vocabulary of the font-hinting language, the more comp... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7164488 | Fax-to-email and email-to-fax communication system and method A facsimile/email communication system and method providing a user the ability to send emails from any standalone facsimile machine and providing a user the ability to logon to a centralized web server and send facsimiles to any standalone fax machine. ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7136067 | Using externally parameterizeable constraints in a font-hinting language to synthesize font variants The principles of the present invention relate to using externally parameterizeable constraints in a font-hinting language to synthesize font variants. A computing system accesses a scaled font that has been scaled for rendering at a target size and a target resolut... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7120872 | Organizing, editing, and rendering digital ink A pen-based computing system supports organizing, editing, and rendering handwritten digital ink. A given page of text may include several word flows, but the flows may be prevented from overlapping one another, and each word and stroke may be assigned to only one f... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116822 | Method and system for data entry of handwritten symbols A method and system for data entry of handwritten text into a computer program that is not designed to accept handwritten text is provided. In preferred embodiments, the computer program is designed to operate in a windowing environment. A data entry program receive... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7079275 | Method and system for facilitating paper to electronic communications A facsimile/email communication system for providing a user the ability to send emails from any standalone facsimile machine. The system does not require any additional hardware or software to be installed on equipment being used by a sender. The system further prov... | 07/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7058203 | Region of interest identification using region of adjacent pixels analysis A method for determining a region of interest on an object includes the step of producing an image of the object. The method also includes the step of identifying regions of adjacent pixels on the image. The method also includes the step of identifying which of the ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050629 | Methods and systems to index and retrieve pixel data Methods and systems are provided to index and retrieve pixel data. Pixel data is received, and connected pixel components are identified. The connected pixel components are associated with segments. Spatial invariant features are extracted for each of the segments, ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7035429 | Method and device for addressing mail items Systems and methods provide for remote addressing of an item of mail that include obtaining remotely produced address information. The address information includes a digitally represented graph of a handwritten address and sending the graph to a device adapted to ap... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7024042 | Word recognition device, word recognition method, and storage medium The capacity of a character feature dictionary is reduced, and stored as a feature dictionary. The capacity is reduced by clustering feature vectors in units of columns or rows for character features, by making m column vectors represent the column or row features, ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7012710 | Method and system for delivery of mail using coded marks A method for providing a mailing system includes receiving, through a computer system, a mail item from a sender, and printing the mail item in a document including coded data thereon, the coded data including an indication of the identity of the mail item and at le... | 03/14/2006 |
