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7602972 Method and apparatus for identifying white space tables within a document  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates detecting white space tables within a document, wherein a white space table is comprised of text arranged in rows and...
7600183 System and method for data publication through web pages  
A system and a method for publishing a newspaper page or other data through a Web page, to make it available more easily through a network such as the Internet. The data is automatically converted...
7593595 Photographic document imaging system  
An apparatus and method for processing a captured image and, more particularly, for processing a captured image comprising a document. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprising a camera to capture...
7587079 Check printing auditing systems and methods  
Embodiments herein print documents comprising magnetic ink characters, capture overlapping partial images of the MICR line of magnetic ink characters, and stitch these partial images together to...
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.
7577295 Markup symbol document processing system  
A system and method are provided for processing a document. The method comprises: marking an area of a document, using at least one predetermined markup symbol; identifying a markup symbol; using...
7567708 Apparatus and method for image processing  
This disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus or an image processing method, and takes as its technical problem the fact that conventionally it is difficult to perform a process of...
7562056 Method and system for learning an attention model for an image  
A system for learning an attention model for an image based on user navigation actions while viewing the image is provided. An attention model learning system generates an initial attention model...
7561736 Image processing apparatus and method of the same  
An image processing apparatus can perform highly efficient coding that generates less visible distortion. The image processing apparatus includes a pre-processing unit configured to reduce the data...
7548647 Method and apparatus for digital-image red-eye correction that facilitates undo operation  
A device that performs automatic red-eye correction on a digital image saves the original image data and a location indicator from each portion of the digital image on which red-eye correction is...
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...
7512272 Method for optical recognition of a multi-language set of letters with diacritics  
A method and system for recognizing alphabetic characters that contain diacritics is described. An image analysis separates the character into its constituent components. The one or more diacritic...
7508986 Document recognition device, document recognition method and program, and storage medium  
In document recognition processing for accurately recognition a document image at high speed, a shape feature is extracted from a component included in an input document image, and the degree of...
7506153 Method and system for user registration using sensor with identifier  
A method and system for enabling registration of a user to use a computer system. The method includes providing a printed registration form containing information relating to user registration, the...
7492923 Method and device for detecting the occupancy state of a seat  
A method and a device for detecting the occupancy state of a seat, e.g., in a vehicle, and for use in activating a restraint mechanism allocated to the seat, as a function of the occupancy state,...
7466873 Artifact removal and quality assurance system and method for scanned images  
An artifact removal and quality assurance method and system for digital images, wherein a document comprising at least one printed page is scanned or the original image data are otherwise input....
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.
7454086 Techniques for positioning images in electronic documents  
Techniques for positioning images in an electronic document. The images may encode information that can be decoded by devices configured to read the images. An area within the electronic document...
7446896 Method and apparatus for printing information on a page containing preprinted objects  
A method and apparatus is disclosed that can scan a page, detect the location and size of any devices or objects on the page, and then print information onto the page without printing the...
7433516 Method of extracting a textual area in a digital image  
A method of extracting a textual area in a digital image, in which the digital image is divided into a plurality of blocks, each being computed to obtain a number of edges, each having a higher...
7426284 Method, apparatus, and program for image processing capable of effectively preventing and detecting tampering, and a medium storing the program  
An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring mechanism configured to acquire an original document image, a dividing mechanism configured to divide the original document image acquired by the...
7421126 Method and system for searching form features for form identification  
A method of and system for identifying a target form for increased efficiency in an automated data capture process is described. Forms are scanned and stored as digitized images. Regions are...
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...
7379593 Method for image segmentation from proved detection of background and text image portions  
A method is provided for segmenting scanned image data in accordance with mixed raster content processing, further including windowing for purposes of extracting particularly classifiable objects,...
7308138 Document segmentation method  
A document segmentation method of detecting segmentation points where a topic of an input document is discontinuous before and after the point to divide the document into plural blocks includes:...
7298902 Method and system for performing image mark recognition  
A method and system for performing image mark recognition for a document is disclosed. A document is scanned into a digital image. Reference image marks are sensed from the digital image. The...
7294817 System and methods for determining nonuniformity correction parameters in detector-array imaging  
An imaging system ( 110 ) for imaging a scene with a detector array ( 104 ) having an array of imaging elements is provided. The imaging system ( 110 ) includes an image estimation module ( 202 )...
7281021 Method, apparatus, and computer program for generating albums  
Correlation between images and photography locations thereof is facilitated when generating an album of images photographed during a trip. Map data sets are stored in a storage means of an album...
7277579 Smart scan  
A method for determining a border of an image includes (a) receiving a composite image including a background image and a foreground image, (b) following one geometric feature (e.g., a line) of the...
7263219 Image processor  
Additive information for restoring the contour of an image is generated and embedded in the image data. The format of the additive information is determined beforehand. When a hard copy is...
7262884 Image processing apparatus and image processing method  
A white background determination section performs a white background determination on the basis of a white threshold calculated by a white threshold calculation section and an area size selected by...
7253917 Image processing apparatus and its control method, computer program, and storage medium  
With this invention, upon scanning a print, since additional information recorded together with that print is reproduced while displaying the scanned image, a special effect that cannot normally be...
7251349 Automatic table locating technique for documents  
Table-like structures in documents are located by analysis of sub-regions (crops) on the document. The analysis involves determining the location of lines having lengths above a certain threshold...
7246321 Editing data  
The invention relates to a method of editing data generated by handwriting. The method comprises the steps of detecting an initiation of an editing; identifying a marking stroke which marks...
7221795 Document processing method, recording medium having recorded thereon document processing program, document processing program, document processing apparatus, and character-input document  
A character overlapping with a line of an entry box is extracted utilizing a dot box. At document input step S 2 , a document to be recognized is read and converted into electronic data to produce...
7203364 Image processing apparatus, image editing apparatus, image editing method, and image editing program  
An image processing apparatus including a receiving unit, an extraction means, and a conversion means is disclosed. The receiving unit receives a first document data and a second document data...
7203360 Learnable object segmentation  
A segmentation method receives a learning image and an objects of interest specification. A segmentation learning method creates a segmentation recipe output. It performs a segmentation application...
7197185 Implicit page breaks for digitally represented handwriting  
A logical separation between pages, such as an implicit page break, is introduced to separate text entered during one handwriting session from text entered during another handwriting session. The...
7180625 Printer controller, image forming apparatus and storage medium  
A printer controller generates pattern data to be printed by a printer engine for use in carrying out a tone adjusting process. The printer controller includes a memory which stores reference tone...
7174049 Image upscaling by joint optimization of low and mid-level image variables  
An image upscaling algorithm jointly optimizes estimating pixel color, classifying it into one of multiple regions, and estimating region boundaries subject to region continuity and...
7168038 System and method for scaling and repositioning drawings  
A computer system and method relating to editing an electronic document having both text and drawings is disclosed. Drawings may be rescaled and/or repositioned responsive to a change in line...
7164500 Method and apparatus for the automatic generation of image capture device control marks  
Image capture device control marks are automatically generated within a computer or printer and automatically printed on pages output from the printer. The control marks when detected by a control...
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...
7149007 Image forming apparatus and image forming method  
In the case of private scan, an entire control section saves, on a hard disk device, “setting information/data” for scan as a record, and reads, when necessary, “setting information/data”...
7142711 Image processing method and image apparatus, and image forming apparatus, program, and storage medium  
In a color conversion section 10 a , a mode judging section 31 judges a mode in effect: a copy mode or a printer mode, according to a mode judging signal. When the copy mode is identified, the...
7133558 Device processing a table image, a memory medium storing a processing program, and a table management processing method  
A table image processing device processes a table image and a memory medium stores a processing program. The table image processing device processes precisely a table image containing a round...
7110007 Image processing apparatus and method  
This invention relates to an image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for combining an original image and another image. In this invention, an original image is segmented...
7102786 Image reading apparatus and processing apparatus  
In a sky shot, when a closing and opening detection unit detects the opening of a document cover, contour detecting means detects as a probable edge point a pixel thought to be a document edge...
7085423 Apparatus and method for filing and reproducing images  
The invention provides a data filing device for storing an original image as one electronic file by not uniformly encoding but in different systems for each of parts in the original image. The data...
7082219 Method and apparatus for separating text from images  
The invention described herein provides a method and apparatus for document processing that efficiently separates and interrelates single modalities, such as text, handwriting, and images. In...
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