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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7876963 | Symbol recognition method A symbol recognition method for increasing the symbol recognition speed by the processor includes the steps of obtaining a pixel density value and an aspect ratio of the symbol image. Then, the center-point value and the corresponding radius value are obtained by a ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7447362 | System and method of enabling a cellular/wireless device with imaging capabilities to decode printed alphanumeric characters A system and method for decoding printed alphanumeric characters from images or video sequences captured by a wireless device, including the pre-processing of the image or video sequence to optimize processing in all subsequent steps, the searching of one or more gr... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7349576 | Method, device and computer program for recognition of a handwritten character A method for recognition of a handwritten character comprises the steps of determining a plurality of position features defining the handwritten character, and comparing the handwritten character to reference characters stored in a database in order to find the clos... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349585 | Image processing system that internally transmits lowest-resolution image suitable for image processing In one embodiment, an image processing system includes a first computer that processes image and a second computer connected with the first computer via a network. The second computer transmits the image to the first computer via the network after adjusting the reso... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7324701 | Image noise reduction An image processing apparatus determines whether or not a target pixel TP which is the object of the smoothing process is an edge-forming pixel based on the edge level (gradient g). If the pixel is determined to be an edge-forming pixel, the smoothing process employ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321687 | Apparatus and method for image processing to label an object in a binary image This disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus or an image processing method, and takes as its technical problem the fact that conventionally it is difficult to perform a process of carving out a rectangle with high precision in a noisy environment. | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319799 | Method of recognizing and indexing documents A method of recognizing and indexing documents, using a scanner connected to a computer, the method including scanning the documents, then using a pointing device or member of the computer to designate an arbitrary point P in at least one box of the documents, and f... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7305138 | Image encoding apparatus, image encoding method and program An image encoding apparatus encodes an image signal according to a JPEG2000 standard. A wavelet converter in the image encoding apparatus acquires a plurality of conversion coefficients by performing wavelet conversion on the image signal. A modeling unit in the ima... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302085 | Vehicle identification method and device In order to improve an identification accuracy of a backlit number plate in a vehicle identification method and device which recognize a vehicle number from a number plate of a vehicle whose image is taken, an image frame of a vehicle is taken by an interlace method... | 11/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7292375 | Method and apparatus for color image processing, and a computer product A show-through is removed as follows. Resolution of the color image is reduced and the color coordinate system is transferred to a one having a high independence. Then, edge intensity is calculated, edge-detection is performed. Then, color threshold processing is pe... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288712 | Music station for producing visual images synchronously with music data codes In order to make a tutor give a remote music lesson to a trainee, the audio-visual station transmits MIDI music data codes/time stamp data codes and click time data codes through a packet switching network and an audio-visual signal, which expresses real images of t... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283645 | Object recognition using binary image quantization and Hough kernels A system and process for recognizing an object in an input image involving first generating training images depicting the object. A set of prototype edge features is created that collectively represent the edge pixel patterns encountered within a sub-window centered... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269301 | System and method providing subpixel-edge-offset-based determination of opacity A system is provided for selecting a foreground region of an image, given a set of pixels defining the boundary of the foreground region of the image. The system includes a component to determine a foreground value (F) and opacity value (α) for each pixel on the se... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7251380 | Adjustment method of a machine-readable form model and a filled form scanned image thereof in the presence of distortion An adjustment method of a machine-readable form model and a filled form scanned image thereof in the presence of distortion comprising model form free of distortion, image form, containing distortion, obtained by optical input device from paper media. One embodiment... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7239740 | Image processing apparatus and method, medium storing program for image processing, and inspection apparatus In a gray level image, the direction and the magnitude of a level gradient are found for each of pixels. With respect to the pixel having a level gradient whose magnitude exceeds a predetermined value, a line segment having a predetermined length is drawn in the dir... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7221810 | Method and device for recording of information A device and a method for recording of text by imaging the text on a light-sensitive sensor (8). The device converts the images (14–17, 47–49) into a set of characters (50, 51) each using character recognition, and then assembling the acts o... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7190832 | Computational methods for the segmentation of images of objects from background in a flow imaging instrument In automated computation-based interpretation of images, the accuracy and reliability of the detection and delineation of objects, known as “object segmentation,” is implemented so as to provide efficient performance. In a multi-step process, objects are first d... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7177430 | Digital entroping for digital audio reproductions The present invention provides a system and method for introducing white noises into a digital audio signal so that there is progressive and cumulative degradation in audio quality after each successive reproduction of the audio sound signal in a fashion analogous t... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174521 | System and method for product yield prediction A system and method for predicting yield of integrated circuits includes at least one type of characterization vehicle which incorporates at least one feature which is representative of at least one type of feature to be incorporated in the final integrated circuit ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7136541 | Method of performing sub-pixel based edge-directed image interpolation A method of generating a value for a missing pixel “x” by determining a “least harmful” local edge direction between pixels, or sub-pixels, on substantially opposing sides of the missing pixel, and interpolating the difference to arrive at a value for pixel ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7065262 | Fast high-accuracy multi-dimensional pattern inspection A method and apparatus are provided for identifying differences between a stored pattern and a matching image subset, where variations in pattern position, orientation, and size do not give rise to false differences. The invention is also a system for analyzing an o... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7053939 | Automatic document detection method and system A method and system for capturing images. First, a preview image of a scene is captured. Next, an automatic determination is made whether the scene is a document. When it is determined that the scene is a document, at least one camera control is set to a value that ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7043080 | Methods and systems for text detection in mixed-context documents using local geometric signatures Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for detection and delineation of text characters in images which may contain combinations of text and graphical content. Embodiments of the present invention employ intensity contrast edge detection ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035466 | Process and device for detection of straight-line segments in a stream of digital data that are representative of an image in which the contour points of said image are identified A process for detection of straight-line segments in a stream of digital data that are representative of an image (m, n) in which the contour points of said image each defined by the modulus and the orientation θ of their gradient in relation to a horizontal axis a... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031553 | Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system before performing OCR, thereby yielding more robust recognition performa... | 04/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7016539 | Method for fast, robust, multi-dimensional pattern recognition Disclosed is a method for determining the absence or presence of one or more instances of a predetermined pattern in an image, and for determining the location of each found instance within a multidimensional space. A model represents the pattern to be found, the mo... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6978229 | Efficient method for modeling and simulation of the impact of local and global variation on integrated circuits A computer implemented method for statistical modeling and simulation of the impact of global variation and local mismatch on the performance of integrated circuits, comprises the steps of: estimating a representation of component mismatch from device performance me... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975764 | Fast high-accuracy multi-dimensional pattern inspection A method and apparatus are provided for identifying differences between a stored pattern and a matching image subset, where variations in pattern position, orientation, and size do not give rise to false differences. The invention is also a system for analyzing an o... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6951008 | Evidential reasoning system and method Computerized method and system for making decisions based on evidential reasoning are provided. The method allows for providing a model structure; including a plurality of processing nodes. Each of the processing nodes is coupled to receive a set of inputs to supply... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6927774 | Character display device and character display method A character display device and method therefor are adapted to obtain a proximal reference point of each character comprising a character series and calculate display coordinates of each character from said proximal reference point and the display angle and display r... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6928109 | Method and apparatus for converting between byte lengths and burdened burst lengths in a broadband communication system Requests are processed to transmit data packets upstream from a cable modem to a cable headend in a manner that minimizes the use of CPU operations and/or memory capacity. Data packets to be transmitted upstream are stored at the cable modem. The data packets each h... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6917708 | Handwriting recognition by word separation into silhouette bar codes and other feature extraction A method of automatically recognizing text. The text is divided into whole words which are each recognize. Each whole word is characterized according to its silhouette. The silhouette is characterized by features in the silhouette such as upwardly extending “polls... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6912064 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method using the same In order to accurately correct environmental variation and aged variation of gamma characteristics, RGB tone data are color-converted to be formed as CMYK tone data, then a tone correction for improving gamma characteristics is performed on the CMYK tone data. The C... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6912310 | Video object segmentation using active contour model with directional information Object segmentation and tracking are improved by including directional information to guide the placement of an active contour (i.e., the elastic curve or ‘snake’) in estimating the object boundary. In estimating an object boundary the active contour deforms fro... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6782509 | Method and system for embedding information in document A method and a system for embedding information in document data that include text written in a page description language. First, an analysis is made of the layout of the document data in which information is to be embedded. Then, based on the analysis of the layout... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6738512 | Using shape suppression to identify areas of images that include particular shapes Shape suppression is used to identify areas of images that include particular shapes. According to one embodiment, a Vector Quantization (VQ)-based shape classifier is designed to identify the vertical edges of a set of shapes (e.g., English letters and numbers). A ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6690821 | Determining the font of text in an image Systems and methods are provided for automatically determining the font of text in a captured document image. Sequences of turns (left, right, straight) around the boundaries of connected components of black pixels in the captured document image are deter... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6650777 | Searching and filtering content streams using contour transformations Methods and systems are provided for locating objects within a content stream, by transforming prospective objects and evaluating the results to identify meaningful semantic values. Transformation is accomplished using various contour transformations, pos... | 11/18/2003 |
