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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189919 | Method and system for container identification A method and system for container identification are disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of digital images of a character sequence on the container, extracting the character sequences from the images, combining the character sequences into at least... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189920 | Image processing system, image processing method, and image processing program A technique that can contribute to a reduction in an operation burden in managing a processing result of semantic determination processing applied to objects included in an image is provided. An object included in an image of image data is extracted. A semantic of t... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189921 | Character recognition device The present invention firstly roughly classifies an analysis range specified by the operator in the color image data of a form into background, a character frame and a character, precisely specifies a character frame on the basis of the classification result, elimin... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184908 | Image processing system, image processing method, and program An image processing system includes a computer and an image processing apparatus. A control portion of the apparatus controls so that a whole of one side and the other side of a transparent sheet are optically read, and the obtained image data of the front and rear ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8150159 | Identifying method of hand-written Latin letter The present invention discloses an identifying method of hand-written Latin letter. The present invention considers many hand-written styles of Latin letter, extract many stable characteristics of Latin letter of different hand-written styles, and classify the Latin... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139861 | Character extracting apparatus, method, and program The present invention provides a technique of accurately extracting areas of characters included in a captured image even in a case where noise or dirt of a relatively large area occurs in a background image. A pixel value integration evaluation value is obtained by... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139862 | Character extracting apparatus, method, and program The present invention provides a technique of accurately extracting areas of characters included in a captured image even in a case where noise or dirt of a relatively large area occurs in a background image. An integrated pixel value is obtained by integrating pixe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135218 | Character recognition device, mobile communication system, mobile terminal device, fixed station device, character recognition method and character recognition program Words possibly included in a scene image shot by a mobile camera can be efficiently extracted using a word dictionary or a map database. Positional information acquiring means 101 measures a current position of the device to acquire positional information. Di... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8116568 | Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, image data output processing apparatus, and image processing method A ruled-line extraction section can be performed with high precision by providing a main-scanning ruled-line extraction section for determining whether a target pixel of binary image data of a document image is a black pixel or a white pixel, for counting the number... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107730 | Imaging system sag correction method and apparatus An apparatus for use with a single modality imaging system configured to generate uncorrected imaging data of a patient, the single modality imaging system includes two gamma cameras and a patient stretcher disposed between the two gamma cameras, the apparatus for c... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8068671 | Optical character readers for reading characters printed on wires or wire sleeves A scanning system for scanning a wire to determine the characters provided on the wire. ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064701 | Optical character readers for reading characters printed on wires or wire sleeves A scanning system for scanning a wire to determine the characters provided on the wire. ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8045803 | Handwriting recognition system and methodology for use with a latin derived alphabet universal computer script A novel symbollogy derived from the lower-case cursive English alphabet (which is compatible with Latin alphabet derived languages), and a multi-step identification program designed to invoke the strengths of the XY Cartesian coordinate mapping system and a specific... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8031943 | Automatic natural language translation of embedded text regions in images during information transfer Text regions of natural language embedded in images are automatically translated via a clipboard buffer during a cut-and-paste command according to an isolation rule defining one or more types of image elements to be isolated, by examining the image elements, respon... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023741 | Methods and systems for detecting numerals in a digital image Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining the location of numerals in an electronic document image. ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8005300 | Image search system, image search method, and storage medium An image search system includes a first calculation section that calculates a first similarity score of each registered image with respect to an input image on the basis of image features of the registered and the input image, a second calculation section that calcu... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986839 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and storage medium In the image processing apparatus of the present invention, when a document is read, a document matching process section determines whether the document is similar to a reference document or not. When the document is similar to the reference document, the document m... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983485 | System and method for identifying symbols for processing images An image-processing system receives an image from a user and identifies an image-processing instruction which has been added to the image by the user. The instruction corresponds to an image-processing operation which is to be applied to at least a portion of the im... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7961948 | Computer-readable record medium in which a telop character extraction program is recorded, telop character extraction method and telop character extraction apparatus A telop character extraction apparatus generates a gray-scale image from a telop region image, and generates an edge region image where an edge is extracted from within the gray-scale image. The apparatus uses the edge region image as a mask image, and creates a lum... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7929765 | Video text processing apparatus Video frames that contain text areas are selected from given video frames by removing redundant frames and non-text frames, the text areas in the selected frames are located by removing false strokes, and text lines in the text areas are extracted and binarized.... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929764 | Identifying character information in media content Implementations of identifying character information in media content are described. In one implementation, a frame of media content is marked with a frame identifier including one or more known characters. These known characters can uniquely identify the frame of m... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925091 | Displaying text of a writing system using syntax-directed translation A method for displaying an input string of character codes as a sequence of glyphs. In one implementation, an ordered list of instructions for transforming an input string of character codes may be generated using syntax-directed translation. The ordered list of ins... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7916948 | Character recognition device, mobile communication system, mobile terminal device, fixed station device, character recognition method and character recognition program Words possibly included in a scene image shot by a mobile camera can be efficiently extracted using a word dictionary or a map database. Positional information acquiring means 101 measures a current position of the device to acquire positional information. Di... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7903878 | Capturing and presenting text during optical character recognition A method of presenting text found on a substantially planar object. The method comprises positioning the substantially planar object for imaging; capturing an image from the substantially planar object; converting the image to a digital text; associating a media typ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7889926 | Image dictionary creating apparatus, coding apparatus, image dictionary creating method An image processor obtains character images included in input image and the character codes for identifying the characters represented by the character images, classifies the character images included in the input image into a plurality of character image groups bas... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7869653 | Magnetic ink character recognition apparatus and magnetic ink character recognition method Column misalignment between a magnetically-recognized character string and an optically-recognized character string is corrected to improve character recognition reliability. A character string is read magnetically and the result outputted. The same character string... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7817856 | Video processing device and its method A video processing method for selectively processing character information (Ic) included in an inputted video stream (Svc). The video stream (Svc) is separated in units of frame into a brightness frame (Y) representing brightness information (VY) and a plurality of ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7738706 | Method and apparatus for recognition of symbols in images of three-dimensional scenes An apparatus and a concomitant method for rectification and recognition of symbols (e.g., to correct for the effects of perspective distortion, rotation and/or scale) in images of three-dimensional scenes is provided. The present method locates a reference region ly... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734092 | Multiple image input for optical character recognition processing systems and methods A method of processing an image includes receiving a digital version of the image, processing the digital version of the image through at least two binarization processes to thereby create a first binarization and a second binarization, and processing the first bina... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7711192 | System and method for identifying text-based SPAM in images using grey-scale transformation A system, method and computer program product for identifying spam in an image using grey scale representation of an image, including identifying a plurality of contours in the image, the contours corresponding to probable symbols (letters, numbers, punctuation sign... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7706614 | System and method for identifying text-based SPAM in rasterized images A system, method and computer program product for identifying spam in an image, including (a) identifying a plurality of contours in the image, the contours corresponding to probable symbols; (b) ignoring contours that are too small or too large; (c) identifying tex... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7706613 | System and method for identifying text-based SPAM in rasterized images A system, method and computer program product for identifying spam in an image, including (a) identifying a plurality of contours in the image, the contours corresponding to probable symbols; (b) ignoring contours that are too small or too large; (c) identifying tex... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7676091 | Method and apparatus for analysing ultrasound images A method of improving an image or a set of images, by transforming an intensity histogram thereof is disclosed. The method comprises: (a) fitting the intensity histogram to a sum of a plurality of localized functions; (b) using the plurality of localized functions t... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7657093 | Magnetic ink character recognition apparatus and magnetic ink character recognition method Column misalignment between a character string recognized by a MICR and a character string recognized by optical character recognition is corrected to improve character recognition reliability. A magnetic data reading unit detects the magnetism of a character string... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7630552 | Systems and methods of assessing documents using multiple profile representations Methods and systems are provided for analyzing and assessing documents using a writing profile for documents, such as a payment instrument. A method may include providing a document to a computer system. The document comprises at least one information field. Writing... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627177 | Adaptive OCR for books A system is presented for scanning entire books or document all at once using an adaptive process where the book or document has known fonts and unknown fonts. The known fonts are processed through a verification system where sure words and error words are determine... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7609889 | Web service application based optical character recognition system and method The present invention disclosed a web based OCR system including an OCR service apparatus that communicates with a web browser of a client apparatus and an optical character recognition method for controlling the OCR service apparatus that communicates with the web ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7502507 | Active embedded interaction code A system and method is described for providing an encoding scheme for a bit stream and displaying or printing the encoded bit stream. Using the encoded bit stream, a pen with a camera may capture an image of a portion of the encoded bit stream. The captured image ma... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502508 | Active embedded interaction coding A system and method is described for providing an encoding scheme for a bit stream and displaying or printing the encoded bit stream. Using the encoded bit stream, a pen with a camera may capture an image of a portion of the encoded bit stream. The captured image ma... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499588 | Low resolution OCR for camera acquired documents A global optimization framework for optical character recognition (OCR) of low-resolution photographed documents that combines a binarization-type process, segmentation, and recognition into a single process. The framework includes a machine learning approach traine... | 03/03/2009 |
