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| 7664343 | Modified Levenshtein distance algorithm for coding Methods and systems of mapping of an optical character recognition (OCR) text string to a code included in a coding dictionary by supplementing the Levenshtein Distance Algorithm (LDA) with additional information in the form of adjustments based on particular charac... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7370066 | System and method for offline editing of data files A system and method that enables a user to edit a data file offline is described. This system and method can enable a user to edit a data file without the user having to discover or deploy a solution application governing the data file. For security, this system and... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363311 | Method of, apparatus for, and computer program for mapping contents having meta-information A method of mapping a large number of items of contents each having meta-information to a low dimensional space so that the map of the contents reflects the meta-information. The method includes the steps of assigning a concept vector to each item of contents, adjus... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349577 | Image processing method and image processing system This invention provides an image processing method which allows easy re-use of image information that is stored to minimize deterioration of image quality and the storage capacity. Storage means is searched for original digital data corresponding to each input image... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7346193 | Method for detecting object traveling direction An object of the invention is to provide a target travel direction detecting method capable of detecting the travel direction of efficiently detecting the travel direction of a target by using a small amount of information. The target travel direction detecti... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7337116 | Speech processing system A system is provided for allowing a user to add word models to a speech recognition system. In particular, the system allows a user to input a number of renditions of the new word and which generates from these a sequence of phonemes representative of the new word. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327883 | Character recognition system and method A system and method for translating a written document into a computer readable document by recognizing the character written on the document aim at recognizing typed or printed, especially hand-printed or handwritten characters, in the various fields of a form. Pro... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317465 | Image display system and method A method of displaying an image may include receiving image data for the image, and defining first and second sub-frames of the image. The first and second sub-frames may have corresponding pluralities of image elements, with each image element of the second sub-fra... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310600 | Language recognition using a similarity measure A dynamic programming technique is provided for matching two sequences of phonemes both of which may be generated from text or speech. The scoring of the dynamic programming matching technique uses phoneme confusion scores, phoneme insertion scores and phoneme delet... | 12/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7295349 | Systems and methods for compensating for print defects Diminished intensity defects occur in electrostatic printing between image regions having grey levels, i.e., different electrostatic potential and toner densities. Such defects occur when higher density regions “steal” toner from lower density regions. The syste... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295980 | Pattern matching method and apparatus A system is provided for matching two or more sequences of phonemes both or all of which may be generated from text or speech. A dynamic programming matching technique is preferably used having constraints which depend upon whether or not the two sequences are gener... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286687 | Method for generating learning and/or sample probes In the present invention information is first defined as a complete description of the meaning of the content, in addition to the required layout of the characters, words, delivery addresses or images of the entire delivery surface, which contains the delivery addre... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283685 | Device that appends a recognition point for image joining to the extracted image and a recognition element thereof The invention provides a device that appends a recognition point for image joining to the extracted image and a recognition element thereof. The device is to provide a plurality of holding slots on a holding platform. Besides, a plurality of positioning slots is pro... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283999 | Similarity string filtering A method, computer program and system for optimizing similarity string filtering are disclosed. A first data string comprising one or more data characters and selecting a second data string comprising one or more data characters are selected. At least one of a defin... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277088 | Keyboard system with automatic correction A method and system are defined which determine one or more alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting keyboard region. The actual contact locations for the keystrokes may occur outside the boundaries of... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277850 | System and method of word graph matrix decomposition Disclosed is a system and method of decomposing a lattice transition matrix into a block diagonal matrix. The method is applicable to automatic speech recognition but can be used in other contexts as well, such as parsing, named entity extraction and any other metho... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7266236 | Accelerated handwritten symbol recognition in a pen based tablet computer The present invention provides a method and apparatus for accelerated handwritten symbol recognition in a pen based tablet computer. In one embodiment, handwritten symbols are translated into machine readable characters using special purpose hardware. In one embodim... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260262 | Display control method, and program, information processing apparatus and optical character recognizer A method for controlling the display of a screen which allows the user to discriminate the scanned image and the recognition result intuitively and easily. The display control method for allowing the user to verify the recognition result of a character on a verifica... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7242988 | Adaptive pattern recognition based controller apparatus and method and human-factored interface therefore The need for a more-readily usable interface for programmable devices is widely recognized. The present invention relates to programmable sequencing devices, or, more particularly, the remote controls for consumer electronic devices. The present invention provides a... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240062 | System and method for creating a searchable word index of a scanned document including multiple interpretations of a word at a given document location Multiple recognition engines (110) provide different interpretations (116) of a word at a given location within a scanned document (108). A word node corresponding to each unique interpretation is stored within a word index (102), with ea... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240003 | Database annotation and retrieval A data structure is provided for annotating data files within a database. The annotation data comprises a phoneme and word lattice which allows the quick and efficient searching of data files within the database, in response to a user's input query for desired infor... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236932 | Method of and apparatus for improving productivity of human reviewers of automatically transcribed documents generated by media conversion systems An apparatus for improving productivity of human reviewers of transcribed documents generated by media conversion systems includes a server/client network of computers, memories and file systems. The server receives and stores voice files created by users of the sys... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7212968 | Pattern matching method and apparatus A dynamic programming technique is provided for matching two sequences of phonemes both of which may be generated from text or speech. The scoring of the dynamic programming matching technique uses phoneme confusion scores, phoneme insertion scores and phoneme delet... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7202960 | Print sheet original authentication system, printer device and checking device An original authentication system and structural elements thereof is provided, in which it is possible to easily distinguish between an original and a copy. The checking device 13 comprises: a print sheet reading sensor 201 for reading the print patter... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7184591 | Systems and methods for adaptive handwriting recognition The present invention utilizes generic and user-specific features of handwriting samples to provide adaptive handwriting recognition with a minimum level of user-specific enrollment data. By allowing generic and user-specific classifiers to facilitate in a recogniti... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7173914 | Communication node receipt of node-output information from processorless central equipment A first communication node of a plurality of communication nodes connected with processorless central equipment in a system sends one or more first portions of node-output information to the processorless central equipment. One or more additional communication nodes... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162482 | Information retrieval engine A system, method, and computer program product retrieve information associated with the signals. The information retrieval can be performed on a signal by quantizing the signal, forming words, and indexing based on weights of the words. The words are formed by group... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162641 | Weight based background discriminant functions in authentication systems Methods and apparatus for providing speech-based authentication, including the determination of a target discriminant based on an identity claim and on at least one target voiceprint model relating to a target speaker, of a background discriminant based on the ident... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159191 | Input of data A data input method in user terminals having a limited-size keyboard with two different data input methods linked in such a way that toggling between the modes does not require from the user any special action during text input, since the change of mode is automatic... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149353 | Method and system for suppression of features in digital images of content Suppression of one or more features in an image of a page of content may be achieved by acquiring a page image, identifying one or more features in the page image that are to be suppressed or not to be suppressed, and preparing a substitute page image which only inc... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142716 | Apparatus for searching document images using a result of character recognition A document image search apparatus generates a text by performing the character recognition of a document image and determines a re-process scope. Then, the apparatus generates a candidate character lattice from the re-recognition result of the re-process scope, gene... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142733 | Document processing method, recording medium recording document processing program and document processing device In the present invention, an erroneously recognized character is corrected by making use of an output in dot characters or in a gray color. The recognized document file is outputted in dot characters or in a gray color image (S101). An operator writes a sign ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7137076 | Correcting recognition results associated with user input Recognition results associated with handwritten electronic ink, voice recognition results or other forms of user input can be corrected by designating at least a portion of a visual display. Recognition results corresponding to the designated portion, and optionally... | 11/14/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7120299 | Recognizing commands written onto a medium A method includes obtaining a scanned command mark written with a conventional writing implement onto a conventional medium, and recognizing the scanned command mark as a command that may be executed by a processor. The method may further include recognizing a comma... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7110621 | Assist channel coding using a rewrite model A system encodes a separate assist channel that carries only a small amount of additional information in a hardcopy document to compensate for failure of an OCR system to accurately reconstruct a scanned electronic version of the hardcopy document. After the OCR sys... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103206 | Method and apparatus for detecting doubled bills in a currency handling device A doubles detection system for detecting doubled documents. The system comprises one or more light sources disposed on a first side of a test document and one or more reflected light sensors disposed along the first side of the test document. The reflected light sen... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095875 | Method and system for address result arbitration A method to arbitrate between results obtained from observationally derived data by several procedures, where the results are items characteristic of the observationally derived data is disclosed. Each procedure is given a ranking according to the confidence on the ... | 08/22/2006 |
