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7620201 System and method for mailing services including notification to recipient of items requiring time sensitive actions  
A notification system and method that enables mail recipients to easily identify mail items that require some action on their part, as well as easily ascertain the date by which the action must be...
7617173 Method and system for improving security of postage indicia utilizing resolution and pixel size  
The present invention includes methods for printing and verifying postage indicia. At least a portion of the indicia is printed with a resolution characteristic that may be changed from indicium to...
7613661 Method and system for detecting duplicate printing of indicia in a metering system  
A method of detecting possible duplicate printing of postal indicia including receiving image data for printing a current postal indicium, determining a number of pixels that will be printed in a...
7602995 Correcting image distortion caused by scanning  
An apparatus, system, method, and computer program product is disclosed, each capable of correcting distortion in a scanned image, using at least a character line extracted from the scanned image....
7590260 Method and apparatus for video coding by validation matrix  
The present invention relates to a system and method for resolving non-address attributes on a mail piece. The present system uses a mail sorter for sorting and facilitating the obtaining of a scan...
7583840 Methods and systems for detection of repeating patterns of features  
Methods and system for automatic identification of repeating patterns of slanted stripe features (marks) on an item.
7580544 Addressee recognizing apparatus  
An addressee recognizing apparatus recognizes the addressee of matter to be delivered. A database stores a description format including at least a described position, the number of character lines,...
7574015 Method of handling mail items with detection of occurrences of OCR attributes  
A method of handling mail items includes, during a first sorting pass, taking a digital picture of each mail item, directing the mail item towards a sorting outlet bin, and deriving from the...
7573615 Multi-function image forming apparatus with improved scan-to-email function  
In a multi-function image forming apparatus connected with a network, an email transmission device extracts image data of an address area, a subject area, and a body area of an original document...
7571855 Display with symbology  
In embodiments, data corresponding to an object is determined from symbology.
7570811 Segmenting an image via a graph  
A method is described for segmenting an image of pixels into a number of fields. A graph is constructed for representing the image. First, separating elements are constructed that are oblong areas...
7561717 System and method for displaying item information  
Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating information associated with one or more items to an operator through a video display. Indicia, such as a bar code or an RFID signal, are captured...
7545997 Simulated high resolution using binary sub-sampling  
In an image processing method, a first raster having a first resolution is divided into a plurality of sub-sampling cells each containing a selected number of neighboring pixels. A pixel from each...
7545949 Method for setting parameters of a vision detector using production line information  
Disclosed are systems and methods for setting various operating parameters of a vision detector from production line information that can be supplied by a manufacturing technician who is not...
7539348 Digital map shape vector encoding method and position information transfer method  
It is an object to provide a method of coding the position information of a digital map in a small data volume by utilizing a compressing and coding technique. In a coding method of coding data...
7539326 Method for verifying an intended address by OCR percentage address matching  
An OCR percentage matching algorithm achieves a significant reduction in false mismatches accounting for combinations of unprocessed spaces, missing characters, extra characters and character...
7529716 Mail arbitrator  
A universal cost minimizing mail arbitrator (UCMA) selects an optimum zip code result from a plurality of zip code results received from a plurality of mail processing directory match modules...
7529386 Method and device for monitoring stamps on mail  
The invention relates to a method for monitoring postage indicia on mail items. According to the invention, graphic information is captured in at least one selected read area of the mail, whereupon...
7529383 Image input apparatus  
An image input apparatus which reconfigures a single reconfigured image from a plurality of low-resolution, object reduced images formed in a specified region on the light detecting element by the...
7526129 Lifting ink annotations from paper  
A computer-implemented system for obtaining ink annotations from paper comprises a comparator that compares an initial electronic version of a document with an electronic image of an annotated...
7522760 Method for inspecting document images  
A method for processing document image data wherein the quality of the document image is determined by examination of a vital document area includes determining a confidence level for the document...
7522752 Central location of a face detecting device, method and program  
A central location of a face detecting device comprises an image input means for inputting a captured face image, a horizontal edge detecting means for detecting a horizontal edge having a...
7502451 Institutional electronic messaging system  
An electronic messaging system for both participating institutions and nonparticpating institutions and their populations. When an institution is participating in the system of the present...
7480394 Method and arrangement for recognizing objects in mail item images, their position and reading their postal information  
The invention relates to a method for recognizing objects in mail items and an arrangement for carrying out the method. In the method, the color image produced in the relevant color camera is...
7474763 System and method for image lift with enhanced image capture  
A system and method for lifting an enhanced image of a delivery item using a first low-resolution color scanner to lift a first image of the delivery item, analyzing the first image with a...
7474762 Franking machine provided with a device for monitoring conformity of the postal indicia  
This invention relates to a machine for franking mail items, comprising means for printing postal indicia on a mail item, means for detecting the position of this mail item along a path of travel...
7469224 Real-time point-of-sale change-of-address processing  
The present invention provides the ability to solicit and obtain updated information about a customer or person. The present invention can be incorporated into a service provision system and thus,...
7463770 Methods and systems for detection of repeating patterns of features  
Methods and system for automatic identification of repeating patterns of slanted stripe features (marks) on an item.
7446278 Method for detecting single postal covers and postal covers stuck together in a mail sorting machine  
The method of detecting single postal items and multiple overlapping postal items in a postal sorting installation consists in analyzing images ( 5 ) representing postal items ( 6 ) viewed from in...
7442897 Apparatus and methods for identifying and processing mail using an identification code  
Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for identifying and processing mail using an identification code on a mailpiece as a redundant source of identification...
7439467 Method and apparatus for processing outgoing bulk mail  
A method and apparatus for processing mail is provided. The mail is serially fed from a stack of mail into a system transport. The system transport conveys the mail to an imaging station, which...
7436979 Method and system for image processing  
A method of processing an image containing written information according to the invention includes the steps of scanning a surface of an object to obtain an image of the surface represented by...
7433492 Method and system for reducing ink consumption required for printing  
A printing system that dynamically adjusts the resolution at which printing will occur based on the lightness or darkness of the medium upon which the image will be printed is provided. The...
7415131 Method and system for image processing  
The invention provides an improved method and system for processing mail items on bar code sorting machines. Such a method includes the steps of scanning a surface of each mail piece with at least...
7415130 Mail image profiling and handwriting matching  
Method and systems for early detection of potentially hazardous material associated with the collection of mail or other objects. In an embodiment of the method of this invention, image...
7407098 Shipment tracking method, device for the implementation of the method and printing device  
A method for tracking shipments of a letter or package shipped by at least one shipper to an address of at least one addressee including printing a bar code on each shipment to be tracked, wherein...
7397009 Systems and methods for sorting mail using a name/firm database  
A system ( 100 ) and method for sorting mail ( 112 ) includes a first database ( 106 ) containing addresses and zipcodes for a plurality of mail item recipients, a second database ( 104 )...
7394915 Method and system for measuring thickness of an item based on imaging  
A system and method for determining the thickness of a mail piece is provided. A first image of at least a portion of a surface of a mail piece is captured using a first optical axis for a feature...
7394914 Single pass off-line video encoding  
Method of automatically sorting mail 1 which has to be forwarded by means of a sorting machine, which processes the mail 1 in a continuous main stream A and where the sorting machine comprises...
7387251 Bar code recognition method and system for paper handling equipment  
A method and system for reading various codes, such as codes imprinted on an item, includes a first and a second code reader that each scan the code on the item to read the code. The data obtained...
7367058 Encoding method  
A method is described that provides efficient, secure web-based recognition services. More particularly, an embodiment of the method relates to confidential encoding by dissociating image...
7356163 Postal image augmented bio-warfare aerosolized agent trigger  
A method and apparatus for reliably detecting bio-warfare agents in the mail stream that may be released from posted items. The agents are detected as the mail pieces are being processed using...
7356162 Method for sorting postal items in a plurality of sorting passes  
The method of sorting postal items in a plurality of sorting passes using at least one sorting machine having sorting outlets constituted by bins consists in using digital fingerprints (V_ID)...
7355743 Statement level tracking in a document production and management process  
A method for monitoring the status of individual communications that are included in mail pieces created by a large scale document production and management processes. More than one communication...
7310430 Hybrid cables for communication networks  
Hybrid cables for communication networks are disclosed. An example cable includes a plurality of electrical conductors disposed along a central axis of the cable. The plurality of electrical...
7304261 Apparatus and methods for processing mailpiece information by an identification code server  
Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for processing mailpiece information in an identification code sorting system by an identification code server. In one...
7301115 System and method of identifying and sorting response services mail pieces in accordance with plural levels of refinement in order to enhance postal service revenue protection  
A method to reduce lost postal revenue by identifying and sorting a mail piece by determining whether algorithmically-resolved image data corresponding to the mail piece indicates that the mail...
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...
7286686 Method and system for delivery of alternative or supplemental material to a designated recipient of a mail piece  
A method and system for delivering alternative material to a designated recipient of a mail piece. A user system scans a mail piece to read an identifier affixed thereto. The system uses...
7274949 Image communication system  
Transmission and receiving of image data recorded on a digital still camera to and from a server are controlled by a portable telephone set. At the time of transmission, communication between the...
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