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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8009917 | 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... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7936927 | Constraint-based ordering for temporal coherence of stroke-based animation A renderer allows for a flexible and temporally coherent ordering of strokes in the context of stroke-based animation. The relative order of the strokes is specified by the artist or inferred from geometric properties of the scene, such as occlusion, for each frame ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7903881 | 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... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7813556 | Incremental system for real time digital ink analysis Flexible and efficient systems and methods for organizing, analyzing, and processing digital ink incrementally analyze input data (e.g., representing ink strokes) as the user continues to add to, edit, or modify the data. In this manner, processing is performed prom... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7796819 | Apparatus and method for character recognition using acceleration sensor Provided are an apparatus and method for character recognition that analyze three-dimensional motion of a user using an acceleration sensor and thereby perform character input and character recognition. The apparatus and method easily discern each stroke on the basi... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7496232 | Distinguishing text from non-text in digital ink A discriminative machine learning system for labels text and non-text strokes in digital ink. The learning system considers stroke features and the context of the strokes, such as temporal information about one or more strokes, in a probabilistic framework. The lear... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7480413 | 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... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7450763 | Reshaping freehand drawn lines and shapes in an electronic document The invention improves the appearance of freehand drawn lines and shapes in an electronic document by first recognizing freehand drawn lines and shapes and generating a line made up of sequential straight line segments for the freehand drawn line when the line does ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7370059 | Model of documents and method for automatically classifying a document A method for automatically creating a model of documents representing a class of documents. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of documents separated into different classes; and determining at least one potential identifying tag within one docume... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369261 | Sensing device for enabling interaction between a computer and a form printed on a surface A sensing device for enabling interaction between a computer and a form printed on a surface. The form includes one or more first viewable information zones relating to one or more available commands and one or more second viewable information zones relating to one ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366404 | Image pickup apparatus The image pickup apparatus has a camera which encodes object image data, further comprises a recording unit 101 for recording image data, a connector 200 for connecting the camera with an expansion card 111 including a signal processor 701 | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349567 | Method and apparatus for determining angular pose of an object The present invention is operative to determine the angular pose of an assumed object. A series of projection sums are calculated from a sample image of the known object where the known object has an assumed pose. The projection sums are calculated for a range of an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343042 | Method and system for identifying a paper form using a digital pen The present application describes systems and methods for composing documents using a digital pointing instrument. In further configurations, a user utilizes a pen to trace a form serial number that is utilized to identify a form template that is used to process inp... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339580 | Method and apparatus for integrating manual input Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, compliant, and flexible multi-touch surface. The surface consists of compressible cushion dielectric, el... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340096 | Method for identification of tokens in video sequences A method for identifying of tokens in a video sequence is described. First, the video sequence is scanned for boundaries between consecutive parts of the sequence where the appearance of the tokens is expected. After that step, candidate regions are pre-selected and... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7321692 | Method, device and computer program product for processing information in a memory A method, computer readable medium and device are provided for freeing memory in a device with limited memory, in which a plurality of pen strokes have been recorded, in electronic form in the memory in association with a page address of one of a plurality of logica... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7305612 | Systems and methods for automatic form segmentation for raster-based passive electronic documents Systems and methods for automatically extracting form information (document structure, elements, format, etc.) from electronic documents such as raster-based passive documents, and storing such form information in a file in accordance with a predetermined DTD (docum... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302111 | Graphics engine for high precision lithography The present invention includes a method to use a phase modulating micromirror array to create an intensity image that has high image fidelity, good stability through focus and good x-y symmetry. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7286139 | Partial guardband clipping A method for rendering a visible portion of an image that includes a plurality of graphics primitives. The size of the graphics primitives may be large and require the use of floating point numbers to represent the vertices. When the graphics primitives have a commo... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7270277 | Data encoding mark for placement in a compact area and an object carrying the data encoding mark The encoding mark uses a series of shapes as a guide, each of shape capable of being encoded with a finite number, including zero, of distinctive markings. The encoding of a predetermined identifier is performed by placing a predetermined number of distinctive marki... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7262764 | Universal computing device for surface applications A universal input device for use with a surface, such as a whiteboard, is provided. The universal input device can be used to control various computing devices as well as capture handwritten electronic ink and have the electronic ink be associated with new or stored... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251775 | System and method for visual history presentation and management A method and computer program for managing and presenting a visual history of web pages accessed by a user. This method and computer program is able to create a screen of thumbnail snapshots of web pages for presentation to a user. These thumbnail snapshots are redu... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7242805 | System and method for automated symbolic recognition including database modeling An automated symbolic recognition system and method includes multiple representations of each alphanumeric in the database by identifying a finite number of exemplars per alphanumeric symbol. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7230554 | Noise suppression circuit, ASIC, navigation apparatus, communication circuit, and communication apparatus having the same The present invention provides an noise suppression circuit comprises an internal circuit which has a high and a low level terminals. The low level terminal is connected to a low level power supply (GND) line. The noise suppression circuit further comprises a first ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231082 | System and method for the secure data entry from document images A system and method for the secure entry of textual data contained in a digital image of a document into a database. The image is assigned a document type, a document identifier and a data base record and segmented based on its document type into at least one image ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218782 | System and method for automated symbolic recognition including multi-phase symbolic reshaping An automated symbolic recognition system and method includes a three phase symbolic reshaping scheme during the symbol recognition process that includes: (a) deriving dissimilarity level from alphanumeric ID's net topological variation and the integration of each of... | 05/15/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7203367 | Indexing, storage and retrieval of digital images A method and a system for archiving, indexing and retrieving images of persons including the steps of providing image data relating to the images of persons to a suitably programmed computer, employing a first suitably programmed computer functionality to provide fa... | 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 |
| 7200282 | Implementation of Hough transform and its application in line detection and video motion analysis An implementation of Hough transform is described. According to one aspect, the Hough transform is used for line detection in an image based on a one-dimensional voting array. ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7177472 | Method and apparatus for text detection A text detection technique comprises local ramp detection, identification of intensity troughs (candidate text strokes), determination of stroke width, preliminary detection of text based on contrast and stroke width, and a consistency check. ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167586 | Method and system for remote form completion The present application describes systems and methods for composing documents using a digital pointing instrument. In further configurations, a user utilizes a pen to partially fill in a form and provide destination data whereby a forms processor adds additionally r... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164430 | Anti-aliasing line pixel coverage calculation using programmable shader A system and method for rendering a non-zero thickness line on a pixel-limited output device such that aliasing of the line is reduced. The edges defining a line segment are expanded to insure that any pixel touched by the line segment has its center included in the... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7146047 | Image processing apparatus and method generating binary image from a multilevel image An information processing apparatus extracts a plurality of strokes from a multilevel image, and generates a stroke binary image. Next, the image processing apparatus extracts feature amounts indicating the thickness and the smoothed graylevel of a stroke in a neigh... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142728 | Method and system for extracting information from a document A computer-implemented method for extracting information from a population of subject documents. The method includes modeling a document structure. The modeled document structure includes at least a document component hierarchy with at least one record type. Each re... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142717 | Image processing apparatus and method By smoothing a full-color image, staircasing of characters even in a gradation image is removed. An area to be smoothed is detected from image data having a plurality of color components, and image data included in the detected area is smoothed in units of color com... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7123768 | 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... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123770 | Incremental system for real time digital ink analysis Flexible and efficient systems and methods for organizing, analyzing, and processing digital ink incrementally analyze input data (e.g., representing ink strokes) as the user continues to add to, edit, or modify the data. In this manner, processing is performed prom... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7095894 | Method and computer program product for recognizing italicized text A method and computer program product are disclosed for recognizing italic text in an optical character recognition system. A plurality of digital images of alphanumeric characters are created from a block of text, each comprising a plurality of rows of digital pixe... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092550 | Implementation of hough transform and its application in video motion analysis An implementation of Hough transform is described. According to one aspect, the Hough transform is used to perform motion analysis of patterns in a video using two-dimensional primary data items and a two-dimensional voting array. ... | 08/15/2006 |
