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| 8189931 | Method and apparatus for matching of bracketed patterns in test strings A method and system are disclosed for matching input character sequences in a set of input patterns. The method comprises the steps of analyzing the set of input patterns, creating a pattern cluster look-up table (PCLT) based on said input patterns, and defining an ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8170352 | String searching facility In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for scanning a data set for the presence of a target string. The data set may be received at a computing facility and cause a scanning program to execute. A first character pair in the data ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8139870 | Image processing apparatus, recording medium, computer data signal, and image processing method There is provided an image processing apparatus including a character recognition section that executes character recognition on an input document image and outputs a character recognition result, an item name extraction section that extracts a character string rele... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135724 | Digital media recasting In one embodiment, a method of tagging content can include: accessing a frame of a digital media production; identifying an object for tagging within the frame; defining a metadata tag for the object; and storing the metadata tag in association with the identified o... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131087 | Program and apparatus for forms processing A form processing program which is capable of automatically extracting keywords. When the image of a scanned form is entered, a layout recognizer extracts a readout region of the form image, a character recognizer recognizes characters within the readout region. A f... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8098939 | Adversarial approach for identifying inappropriate text content in images An adversarial approach in detecting inappropriate text content in images. An expression from a listing of expressions may be selected. The listing of expressions may include words, phrases, or other textual content indicative of a particular type of message. Using ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8077984 | Method for computing similarity between text spans using factored word sequence kernels A computer implemented method and an apparatus for comparing spans of text are disclosed. The method includes computing a similarity measure between a first sequence of symbols representing a first text span and a second sequence of symbols representing a second tex... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077983 | Systems and methods for character correction in communication devices A system and method for character error correction is provided, useful for a user of mobile appliances to produce written text with reduced errors. The system includes an interface, a word prediction engine, a statistical engine, an editing distance calculator, and ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8045808 | Pure adversarial approach for identifying text content in images A pure adversarial optical character recognition (OCR) approach in identifying text content in images. An image and a search term are input to a pure adversarial OCR module, which searches the image for presence of the search term. The image may be extracted from an... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041127 | Method and system for obscuring and securing financial data in an online banking application One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that obscures critical information communicated over a network. During operation, the system receives a set of data and produces a file which represents a character in the data with at least one image, thereb... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041126 | Intelligent document scanning A method, apparatus, and system, for scanning a first portion of a data to generate a second portion of data is provided. A control parameter relating to a level of detail associated with filtering a first portion of data is received. The filtering of the first port... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8023745 | Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for fast neighborhood determinations in dynamic environments Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for ascertaining neighborhood information in a dynamically changing environment, such as an electronic ink environment may include: (a) receiving data representing plural electronic ink strokes; (b) defining a first vert... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7986843 | Digital image archiving and retrieval in a mobile device system A computer-implemented method of managing information is disclosed. The method can include receiving a message from a mobile device configured to connect to a mobile device network (the message including a digital image taken by the mobile device and including infor... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7970213 | Method and system for improving the recognition of text in an image Various embodiments of the invention describe a method, system and computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for improving the recognition of text present in an image. The image is processed by applying different operators to the image to obtain multi... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7958164 | Visual design of annotated regular expression A system that provides a visual mechanism (e.g., user interface (UI)) by which a user can design a regular expression is provided. The graphical interactive mechanism enables a user to develop regular expressions without an understanding of the intricacies of the re... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949192 | Techniques for converting analog medical video to digital objects Techniques for converting analog medical video data to digital objects include receiving a digital video signal. The signal is produced by converting an analog video signal from playing a legacy analog medical video medium on an appropriate analog video player. With... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945101 | Innovative OCR systems and methods that combine a template based generative model with a discriminative model A method employing a hybrid classification model is used to perform optical character recognition operations for an image. Image data from the image is provided to a generative classification model of the hybrid model, and generative image classifications operations... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7903884 | System and computer software program for visibly processing an observed information's relationship with knowledge accumulations A system for visibly processing observed information may include a configuration for systematizing information; a knowledge accumulation housing unit for storing knowledge accumulations from knowledge information belonging to each such configuration; an observed inf... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7792369 | Form processing method, form processing device, and computer product A form processing apparatus extracts layout information and character information from a form document. A candidate extracting unit extracts word candidates from the character information. A frequency digitizing unit calculates emission probability of a word candida... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7742642 | System and method for automated reading of handwriting A system for automatically recognizing a handwriting image and converting such image to text data including a sequence of validated words, has an image input device, a number of handwriting recognition engines, and control unit. A first handwriting recognition engin... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7643687 | Analysis hints A system and method for assisting with analysis and recognition of ink is described. Analysis hints may be associated with a field. The field may receive electronic ink. Based on the identity of the field and the analysis hint associated with it, at least one of ana... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7623716 | Language translation device, image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, language translation method and storage medium A translation device analyses image data that includes characters, to separate and extract a character region, and another region whose structural elements differ from those of the character region; recognizes characters in the region determined to be the character ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7623715 | Holistic-analytical recognition of handwritten text In a combined holistic and analytic recognition system, a holistic recognition module recognizes an input word or phrase image by matching an input string of character features for the whole word or phrase against a string of prototype features for a plurality of re... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7565016 | Learning-based automatic commercial content detection Systems and methods for learning-based automatic commercial content detection are described. In one aspect, the systems and methods include a training component and an analyzing component. The training component trains a commercial content classification model using... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7548652 | Rapid comparison of similar data strings A comparison routine for comparing two data strings includes pre-processing, copying letters and digits into local buffers, comparing the contents of the local buffers using a left-to-right, walk-forward scanning algorithm, including selecting a first item from each... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7496233 | Service processing apparatus and service processing method A user defines a job flow of desired service cooperation according to a GUI screen displayed on a client terminal where parallel processing of plural parallel-executable jobs can be set. According to the thus-defined job flow, an instruction data generation server g... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7443316 | Entering a character into an electronic device A method (300) for entering a character into an electronic device (100) is provided. The method (300) includes displaying (301) input character keys (204) on a touch sensitive region (202) of a display screen (105) of... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444021 | Character string identification The present invention provides a method of identifying a string formed from a number of hand-written characters, such as hand-written words. In order to achieve this, the method operates to determine character probabilities for each character in the string, as well ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437001 | Method and device for recognition of a handwritten pattern A method for recognition of a handwritten pattern comprises the steps of forming (4) a representation of the handwritten pattern, forming (6) at least two subconfigurations by dividing the representation of the handwritten pattern, and processing the s... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7420701 | Systems and methods for providing automatic language switching Systems and methods for accurately recognizing a language format of an input imaging data stream when no explicit language switch is present. A sniffer process is initiated when an imaging device receives an input imaging data stream. The sniffer process analyzes an... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418442 | Ink alternates and plain text search Providing the ability to search a document for content recorded as both ink characters and text characters. A character from a search query word is retrieved. A program retrieves the character in the electronic document. The program determines if the character in th... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415137 | Image processing method, apparatus and storage medium A method of processing an image includes steps of identifying one candidate for a human face region within an image; calculating a probability that the candidate for human face region represents a human face; and saving the probability as attached information to the... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7406201 | Correcting segmentation errors in OCR A method for encoding characters includes identifying one or more sequences of the character codes that are likely to be generated due a segmentation error in application of a pattern recognition process, and associating a respective extension character code with ea... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403656 | Method and apparatus for recognition of character string in scene image A character recognition method that is robust under an unknown illumination condition is provided. An apparatus for realizing such robust character recognition includes plural different binarization, means for synthesizing character sub-image candidates that have be... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7391419 | Information distribution system An information distribution system configured to deliver various types of content provided by an information distributor to information receivers through a network and transmitting the content to be distributed converted to colors, color values, or color digital val... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391527 | Method and system of using a multifunction printer to identify pages having a text string A method is directed to using a multifunction printer to identify pages of a printed document that have a specified text string. The method comprises electronically converting, with the multifunction printer, a plurality of pages of the printed document to a plurali... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379603 | Rollup functions and methods Methods of organizing a series of sibling data entities in a digital computer are provided for preserving sibling ranking information associated with the sibling data entities and for attaching the sibling ranking information to a joint parent of the sibling data en... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379596 | System and method for personalization of handwriting recognition An improved system and method for personalizing recognition of an input method is provided. A trainable handwriting recognizer may be personalized by using ink written by the user and text authored by the user. The system includes a personalization service engine an... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373414 | Multi-media system and method for simultaneously delivering multi-media data to multiple destinations A multimedia system and method that provides easy universal text searching for non-technical users, is disclosed. A configuration of the multimedia system and method of the present invention also facilitates content delivery through multiple, independent, simultaneo... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
