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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150170 | Statistical approach to large-scale image annotation Statistical approaches to large-scale image annotation are described. Generally, the annotation technique includes compiling visual features and textual information from a number of images, hashing the images visual features, and clustering the images based on their... | 04/03/2012 |
| 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 |
| 7366983 | Spell checker with arbitrary length string-to-string transformations to improve noisy channel spelling correction A spell checker based on the noisy channel model has a source model and an error model. The source model determines how likely a word w in a dictionary is to have been generated. The error model determines how likely the word w was to have been incorrectly entered a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366666 | Relative delta computations for determining the meaning of language inputs A method for processing language input can include the step of determining at least two possible meanings for a language input. For each possible meaning, a probability that the possible meaning is a correct interpretation of the language input can be determined. At... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356188 | Recognizer of text-based work Described herein is a technology for recognizing the content of text documents. The technology determines one or more hash values for the content of a text document. Alternatively, the technology may generate a “sifted text” version of a document. In one impleme... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352365 | Flexible computer input The invention relates to a “Flexible Computer Input”, determined from the data from a touch-sensitive input surface for fingertip positions and pressure trigger regions in comparison with a stored topography for the input signal of a computer. The base topograph... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7336257 | Method for input of text by selection of letters using a cursor and device for carrying out said method The aim of the invention is development of a method for input of text by selection with a cursor from a list of letters which operates with various operating elements for control of the cursor and a device for carrying out said method. Said aim is achieved, whereby ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7305385 | N-gram based text searching N-grams (i.e., N character sequences) are used to identify documents that potentially satisfy a search query. The documents that potentially satisfy the query are then searched (e.g., using a full text search) to determine which documents actually satisfy the query.... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293231 | Data entry for personal computing devices In one aspect of the invention, the user can rapidly enter and search for text through a combination of entering one or more characters (a partial text entry) on a digitally displayed keyboard with a pointing device and using a search list to display a list of selec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287027 | System and method for entering a default field value through statistical defaulting Principles of the present invention provide a method of entering a default field value in a second data entry field based on a user's current entry in a first data entry field. The method establishes a relational index table, the relational index table including at ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286115 | Directional input system with automatic correction A system associated with a text entry application, such as email or instant messaging, comprises an optional onscreen representation of a circular keyboard, a list of potential linguistic object matches, and a message area where the selected words are entered. The c... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284009 | System and method for command line prediction Systems, methods, and computer program products for command line prediction are disclosed. Commands entered on a command line are saved to a command log. The command log is analyzed to generate a plurality of n-gram tables that reflect the entries in the command log... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277029 | Using language models to expand wildcards A method of inputting text is provided in which a first portion of an input string is received from a user, the first portion of the input string including at least one keystroke representing a wildcard character of the input string. A second portion of the input st... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7245780 | Group average filter algorithm for digital image processing This present invention discloses a system and method for enhancing images of barcodes and other similar objects taken by the digital camera connected to or embedded in a mobile device. This filter works by converting the image into its equivalent gray scale. The alg... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242816 | Group average filter algorithm for digital image processing This present invention discloses a system and method for enhancing images of barcodes and other similar objects taken by the digital camera connected to or embedded in a mobile device. This filter works by converting the image into its equivalent gray scale. The alg... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7218781 | System and method for chinese input using a joystick A Chinese text entry system and method is provided to allow users to enter a character to a device such as a cellular phone or a PDA by adding a first few strokes required for the character using a joystick or its equivalent. By simply moving the joystick to add one... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218249 | Hand-held communication device having navigation key-based predictive text entry A hand-held communication device provides navigation key-based predictive text entry. The hand-held communication device includes a housing generally sized to be held in a human hand having a display disposed for displaying characters selectable for entry in a chara... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7207011 | Alphanumeric information input method An alphanumeric information entry process that includes provision and use of a personal context model that correlates various examples of user context against a unique personal language model for the user. The personal language model itself along with considerable c... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7184949 | Basic poetry generation A method of analyzing an author's work, including reading a text file, generating an analysis model from the text file and storing the analysis model. The text file may be a poem, the poem containing ASCII text. The analysis model is a linked data structure. The lin... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7158652 | Method of using plural watermarks to prevent unauthorized image copying An increasing number of people are employing a variety of methods of editing and processing digital content in an effort to illegally copy the content. It is difficult to develop digital watermark technology that is able to withstand all types of editing and process... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7130487 | Searching method, searching device, and recorded medium The present invention relates to a retrieval method for searching a first character element string obtained by subjecting a character string to character recognition for a second character element string. The first character element string includes a first character... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120302 | Method for improving the accuracy of character recognition processes The present invention embodies a character recognition method for constructing a result string from a plurality of result sets. Each result set comprises at least one candidate character, and each candidate character has an associated confidence indication. The meth... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7111248 | Alphanumeric information input method An alphanumeric information entry process that includes provision and use of a personal context model that correlates various examples of user context against a unique personal language model for the user. The personal language model itself along with considerable c... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7072493 | Robust and stealthy video watermarking into regions of successive frames A technology is described herein for the protection of rights in the content of a video sequence. In one example the technology embeds an information pattern in one or more regions of a video signal. A region includes a plurality of successive frames. The example do... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7065250 | Automated image interpretation and retrieval system A method of classifying a digital image is disclosed. The method provides a region adjacency graph (310) representing the digital image and analyses the region adjacency graph (310) for predetermined patterns. For each identified pattern a classificati... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7046847 | Document processing method, system and medium A technique for extracting a meaningful text block from a document where a table, an itemized list, a multiple column, etc., are arbitrarily laid out. A document is input which is laid out using blanks or the like, then a symbol is acquired which is associated with ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043426 | Structured speech recognition Speech recognition methods, systems, and interfaces are used in the generation of medical reports from data in a hierarchically-organized database for the entry and searching of data in a database based on spoken utterances of a user. A workflow function facilitates... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7031985 | Lexical cache A lexical cache comprises a collection of lexical containers, such as tuned hash table, that are organized according to the length of the keys to be looked up in the lexical cache. In one embodiment, the word is compressed to generate a key. Based on the length of t... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7020338 | Method of identifying script of line of text A method of identifying the script of a line of text by first assigning a weight to each n-gram in a group of documents of known scripts, where each n-gram is a sequence of numbers representing k-mean cluster centroids of a known script to which character segments i... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6975743 | Robust and stealthy video watermarking into regions of successive frames An implementation of a technology is described herein for the protection of rights in the content of a video sequence. This technology further generally relates to a technology facilitating embedding imperceptible, de-synchronization-resistant watermarks in video se... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6966031 | Method of organizing and accessing Chinese words A method and system of organizing and accessing Chinese words comprises word storage structures having words indexed by the meanings, by the radicals, by the strokes and by the usage frequency thereof; said storage structures separating the traditional form words an... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6934405 | Address reading method An address reading method with processing steps controlled by parameters, in which free parameters which cannot be adapted by learning samples are to be automatically optimized. These parameters are therefore assigned costs. The value of free parameters which are ex... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6925475 | Process and apparatus for management of multimedia databases The management system comprises a set of specialized operational units with an acquisition module, a multimedia database, indexing and search agents that can be subdivided into subagents, an agent dedicated to managing information relating to the structure of docume... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6917910 | Method, apparatus, computer system and storage medium for speech recognition The present invention provides a method and apparatus for speech recognition. The apparatus of the invention can include an acoustic processor. The acoustic processor can convert analog speech input signals into digital signals. Also included can be a first storage ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6646572 | Method for designing optimal single pointer predictive keyboards and apparatus therefore Keys are arranged on a keyboard as learned during a training stage. During training, a training corpus of input symbol sequence is provided. Each unique symbol in the corpus has an associated key on the keyboard. A cost function that measures a cost of in... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6636636 | Character recognizing apparatus, method, and storage medium It is an object of the invention to improve output precision of a final recognition result by further obtaining and applying a forward-chain probability in addition to a backward-chain probability in a Bi-gram statistic process, as a post-processing in th... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6560360 | Feed forward feed back multiple neural network with context driven recognition A recognition system is disclosed, including a representation of an object in terms of its constituent parts that is translationally invariant, and which provides scale invariant recognition. The system further provides effective recognition of patterns t... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6292772 | Method for identifying the language of individual words The method of recognizing the language of a single word as to spelling and grammar correction (e.g., identifying the appropriate language resources on a document, paragraph, sentence or even individual word basis), the automatic invocation of transliterat... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6175829 | Method and apparatus for facilitating query reformulation A method and apparatus for verifying a query to provide feedback to users for query reformulation. By utilizing selectivity statistics for semantic and visual characteristics of image objects, query verification "examines" user queries and allows users to... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6137911 | Test classification system and method Documents are classified into one or more clusters corresponding to predefined classification categories by building a knowledge base comprising matrices of vectors which indicate the significance of terms within a corpus of text formed by the documents a... | 10/24/2000 |
