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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116566 | Unknown pattern set recognition A pattern recognition system compares a set of unlabeled images (or other patterns) having a variation of state in a set-by-set comparison with individual data sets of multiple labeled images (or other patterns) also having a variation of state. The individual data ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116565 | Collation device and collation method for authenticating users A reading unit supplies card information that has been read from a card to a management unit by way of a read-out unit. The management unit assigns a high order of priority to card information that has been newly read and stores the card information to which this or... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116567 | Digitizing documents Techniques for performing page verification of a document are provided. The techniques include performing a recognition technique on a document to recognize one or more objects in the document, excluding the one or more recognized objects from the document, and perf... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111921 | Method and apparatus for performing model-based OPC for pattern decomposed features A method for decomposing a target circuit pattern containing features to be imaged into multiple patterns. The process includes the steps of separating the features to be printed into a first pattern and a second pattern; performing a first optical proximity correct... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111920 | Closed-loop integrity monitor Systems and methods for operating an avionics component to a level of certification. Steps include: receiving and sending data to a data monitor and an integrity monitor, the data monitor operating at a first level of certification and the integrity monitor operatin... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107728 | Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing system, computer program and recording medium An image processing apparatus includes a feature point calculating section for extracting two or more connected components from a document image of interest and calculating the feature point from the centroid defined in each of the connected components, a features c... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107729 | Method for improving character outlines using multiple alignment zones A method aligns a character to a sampling grid of an image, where an outline of the character is specified by input pen commands. Points and contours of the input pen commands are determined. An orientation of each contour is determined. A first directed acyclic gra... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103099 | Method and system for recognizing characters and character groups in electronically represented text A system and method for automatically recognizing words or phrases in text. ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098936 | Method and apparatus for detecting objects in an image A method of detecting generally rectangular objects in an image comprises determining candidate rectangles in the image based on detected corners in the image, ranking the candidate rectangles on the basis of a set of differentiating factors and detecting objects in... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098935 | Apparatus and method for recognizing pattern data in a mobile terminal Provided is an improved apparatus and method for recognizing pattern data. The method including extracting a high frequency component with Y data from pattern data sensed through a camera equipped in a mobile station to more clearly recognize edge portions. The high... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8081823 | Segmenting a string using similarity values Disclosed are systems and methods for segmenting a string comprised of one or more string segments using similarity values. In embodiments, each string segment may contain at least a variation of a marker string that may be used to separate string segments in the st... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081822 | System and method for sensing a feature of an object in an interactive video display Embodiments of the present invention include a method for processing captured image information in an interactive video display system. The method includes accessing a region of a vision image. The method further includes comparing the region of the vision image to ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077970 | Operation estimating apparatus and related article of manufacture An operation estimating apparatus includes an image obtaining unit, a human body feature point specifying unit, and an operation estimating unit. The image obtaining unit repeatedly obtains images. The human body feature point specifying unit specifies a predetermin... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077972 | Distributed document processing A system for document processing including decomposing an image of a document into at least one data entry region sub-image, providing the data entry region sub-image to a data entry clerk available for processing the data entry region sub-image, receiving from the ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077971 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program This invention generates a digital document by applying character recognition to character images in a document image, and rendering the character recognition result on the document image in a transparent color. This digital document allows to specify a part corresp... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073257 | Information processing system, information processing method, image processing apparatus, program, and recording medium Text data is extracted from image data read by an image reader. Log data containing the extracted text data is generated. The generated log data is stored in a log management server. ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073256 | Image processing apparatus and method therefor Replacement target image data and image data for replacement are stored, character images of the replacement target image data and character images of the image data for replacement are extracted, and character recognition is performed for each page on character str... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064699 | Method and device for ascertaining feature vectors from a signal A signal is used to form intermediate feature vectors which are subjected to high-pass filtering. The high-pass-filtered intermediate feature vectors have a respective prescribed addition feature vector added to them. ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064697 | Laplacian principal components analysis (LPCA) Systems and methods perform Laplacian Principal Components Analysis (LPCA). In one implementation, an exemplary system receives multidimensional data and reduces dimensionality of the data by locally optimizing a scatter of each local sample of the data. The optimiz... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064700 | Method and system for character recognition Character recognition is described. In one embodiment, it may use matched sequences rather than character shape to determine a computer-legible result. ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064696 | Geometric parsing of mathematical expressions A processing device may parse a group of strokes representing a mathematical expression. The group of strokes may be examined to determine whether the group of strokes satisfies any of a finite set of rules. When the group of strokes, included in a region, satisfies... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064698 | Fixed form image reading apparatus and fixed form image reading method using the same An fixed form image reading apparatus includes an imaging portion for taking an image of a fixed form image formed in accordance with a predetermined rule so as to deliver image data, a luminance detecting portion that detects an accumulated value of luminance of a ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059897 | Method for automatically performing an image processing function on an electronic device A method (400) for automatically performing a plurality of image processing functions on an electronic device (100) by providing a plurality of image processing option keys (405) including a first image processing option key and a second image p... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059898 | Method and system for learning object recognition in images In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method for learning object recognition in an image is provided. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing a training set of standa... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045802 | End of program pattern detector Systems and methods are set forth for detecting an end of program pattern. More specifically, systems and methods are set forth for recognizing and acting upon sequential image data that contains an end of program pattern. ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041118 | Pattern recognition filters for digital images In an exemplary embodiment, a pattern is recognized from digitized images. A first image metric is computed from a first digitized image and a second image metric is computed from a second digitized image. A composite image metric is computed as a function of the fi... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031942 | Matching device A matching device includes a first storing unit, a second storing unit, and a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a control unit and a circuit unit. In the circuit unit, a first circuit including distance calculating circuits that calculate dista... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027538 | User interface for high dynamic range merge image selection Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for creating high dynamic range images. One method includes actions of establishing a current set of digital image; displaying a high dynamic range image and information identifying the current ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027537 | Visual object identification by computational majority voting A method of distinguishing an object in an image. The method including the steps of detecting an image with an optical device where the image includes at least one object. Identifying at least one object using a central processing unit (CPU) that includes a central ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023739 | Processes, data structures, and apparatuses for representing knowledge Processes, data structures, and apparatuses to represent knowledge are disclosed. The processes can comprise labeling elements in a knowledge signature according to concepts in an ontology and populating the elements with confidence values. The data structures can c... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023740 | Systems and methods for notes detection To perform notes detection, candidate reference marks are identified in a document. A starting note zone is identified in the document. A pair of similar reference marks is identified from the candidate reference marks including a first reference mark in the note zo... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019159 | Method and apparatus for informing user of image recognition error in imaging system Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for informing a user of an image recognition error in an imaging system. The method includes detecting environmental factors causing errors of image recognition when image recognition is requested by the user, calculating analy... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014606 | Image discrimination apparatus An image discrimination apparatus includes an inter-frame distance calculating unit 2 for calculating an inter-frame distance which is a distance between features from the feature of a current frame extracted by a feature extracting unit 1 and the feat... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009913 | System, method, apparatus and computer program product for capturing human-readable text displayed on a unit dose package A system, method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for capturing human-readable text displayed on a unit dose package. In particular, identification information associated with a unit dose package may be used to determine a location and/or a forma... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000530 | Computer-implemented expert system-based method and system for document recognition and content understanding A system and process for recognizing documents by type and understanding at least a portion of the contents thereof. The process includes the steps of providing a document in electronic form, determining a set of facts, data and information about the document, provi... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991230 | Modeling micro-structure for feature extraction Exemplary systems and methods use micro-structure modeling of an image for extracting image features. The micro-structure in an image is modeled as a Markov Random Field, and the model parameters are learned from training images. Micro-patterns adaptively designed f... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986838 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method The present invention provides an image processing apparatus capable of preventing deterioration of judgment accuracy when performing document matching process. To be more specific, when selecting feature points in the neighborhood of a target feature point, a prede... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983484 | Pattern recognition system, pattern recognition method, and pattern recognition program A pattern recognition system, pattern recognition method, and pattern recognition program capable of increasing the accuracy in computing the false acceptance probability and capable of ensuring a stable security strength are provided. Pattern recognition systems | 07/19/2011 |
| 7970209 | Holographic data storage using oversampling and balanced codewords There is provided an optical information detecting method. The method includes: detecting an image of a source data page coded with balanced codewords by the use of 1:N (where N is greater than 1) excessive detection pixels; determining a distribution pattern of val... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961947 | FACS cleaning in motion capture A method of cleaning facial marker data, the method comprising: decimating frames of survey facial marker data into representative frames of key facial poses; generating a facial pose matrix using the representative frames of key facial poses; and cleaning incoming ... | 06/14/2011 |
