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7616815 Reformatting documents using document analysis information  
A method and apparatus for reformatting electronic documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing layout analysis on an electronic version of a document to locate text...
7616814 Determining pixels textual characteristics  
Pixels are classified as text; or “non-text” by responding to accumulated luminous brightness gradients within a predetermined pixel interior. Text and non-text image characteristics rest on...
7609881 Device and method for image processing as well as image processing computer program  
The image processing device is equipped with an image area extracting part for extracting a plurality of image areas from image data, an image positional information recognizing part for...
7606419 Translated document image production device, recording medium and translated document image production method  
A translated document image production device has an extraction section, a translation section and a region backfill section. The extraction section extracts a group of pixels to be processed, the...
7606418 Writing analytic apparatus and writing analytic program  
A writing analysis apparatus analyzes a content of a writing, probes into various kinds of images contained in the given writing, etc., in a time series manner. The writing analytic apparatus...
7606407 Systems and methods of assessing multi-field documents using multiple profile representations  
Methods and systems are provided for analyzing and assessing documents using a writing profile for documents, such as a payment instrument. A method may include providing a document to a computer...
7604161 Question paper forming apparatus and question paper forming method  
A question paper forming apparatus, includes: an image reading unit that reads an image of a question original in which a character string for constituting an answer of a question is designated by...
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....
7602971 System, method and recording medium for automatically classifying documents  
A system for automatically classifying documents includes a database, a positioning-information capturing device, a locating device, and a document comparison device. The database is used for...
7596270 Method of shuffling text in an Asian document image  
A method, system, and computer-readable medium containing computer-executable instructions are provided, for randomly relocating text character images of a scanned-in Asian character document to...
7593575 Systems and methods of capturing information using association of text representations  
Methods and systems are provided for capturing written information from an information field of a document using a computer system. A document may be provided to the computer system. The document...
7590286 Image recognition apparatus and program for recognizing the substance of an image, particularly in a motion picture environment  
A relatively inexpensive image recognition apparatus offering a high image recognition rate. An image recognition apparatus recognizes movements of players matched against each other between...
7580568 Methods and systems for identifying an image as a representative image for an article  
Methods and systems that identify a representative image for an article are described. In one aspect of the invention, an article is received, an image data signal is determined for each image...
7574069 Retargeting images for small displays  
A method retargets an image to a different size. An input image is segmented into regions. Selected regions are cut from the input image to construct a background image. The background image is...
7574044 Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program  
An image processing apparatus has an extracting unit, a dividing unit and a text searching unit. The extracting unit extracts a text part from an image. The dividing unit classifies text in the...
7570816 Systems and methods for detecting text  
The subject invention relates to facilitating text detection. The invention employs a boosted classifier and a transductive classifier to provide accurate and efficient text detection systems...
7567709 Segmentation, including classification and binarization of character regions  
Disclosed is a device for binarizing an image. The device comprises an input part for receiving an image, a block classification part for dividing the received image into blocks, and classifying...
7565012 Method and apparatus for generating electronic document by continuously photographing document in moving picture  
A method for generating an electronic document by continuously photographing a document having many pages as a moving picture includes: photographing the document and generating moving picture...
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...
7557963 Label aided copy enhancement  
Regions within a scanned document are labeled according to content. These labeled regions allow for particular enhancement and sharpening methods to be applied. The labeled regions may be further...
7552120 Method for indexing and identifying multimedia documents  
The method of indexing multimedia documents comprises the following steps: a) for each document identifying and extracting terms t i constituted by vectors characterizing properties of the; b)...
7545992 Image processing system and image processing method  
This present invention provides an image processing system and image processing method which can reliably transmit image information to a destination without attaching a large file which applies...
7545981 Document image re-ordering systems and methods  
Embodiments herein acquire an image containing text, identify distinct regions of text within the image (using, for example, a document model), and separate sub-images of the image according to the...
7542605 Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program  
Vector data conversion is executed at once for all the block images of blocks having a predetermined attribute in a plurality of read document images. A series of obtained vector data is output by...
7539343 Classifying regions defined within a digital image  
A method for classifying regions defined within a digital image includes defining a tessellated set of regions from a plurality of regions identified by a plurality of segmented versions of the...
7536048 Method and apparatus for automatically determining image foreground color  
A foreground color for a digital image is automatically determined by dividing the colors of the pixels of at least a part of the digital image into a number of color clusters in a color space, and...
7529407 Segmenting an image via shortest cycles  
A method and device are provided for segmenting an image of pixels into a number of fields. First the method finds field separators using the background of the image, in particular white areas on a...
7529007 Methods of identifying the type of a document to be scanned  
Methods for establishing or configuring imaging device settings use the luminance and chrominance values of an original document. The document is identified as either a text document or a...
7525674 Print control data generating apparatus, print system, printer, and print control data generating method  
A print control data generating apparatus includes: a print image generator that generates a first print image having a size not larger than that of a print paper as a print image in a marginless...
7515772 Document registration and skew detection system  
Disclosed methods and systems perform electronic registration of digitally captured images in real-time and performs accurate and robust digital image processing by analyzing the entire digitally...
7508539 Image forming device, layouter, and renderer  
An image forming device includes a layouter for generating layout data for a document file; a renderer for generating rendering data for the document file; a data control section connected to the...
7505632 Method, apparatus and storage medium for enhancing document image, method, apparatus and storage medium for character recognition  
The present invention relates to method, apparatus and storage medium for enhancing document image, and method, apparatus and storage medium for character recognition. For enhancing the document...
7505626 Recognizing background in a multicolor image  
A method and apparatus for identifying and reproducing a background of a pixelmap. The method includes dividing the pixelmap into a grid of tiles, determining for each tile a background component...
7496229 System and method for visual echo cancellation in a projector-camera-whiteboard system  
A system and method for transmitting a clear image of a whiteboard work surface for remote collaboration. The image is separated into two portions; the projected image of the work surface, and the...
7493491 Server, a terminal apparatus and an image management method  
A server stores original data without a water-mark. When a user at a terminal apparatus connected with the server requests the server to display the original data on a display of the terminal...
7480409 Degraded character image generation method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus for generating a degraded character image at various levels of degradation automatically is presented in this invention. The method comprises rendering the character image on...
7480408 Degraded dictionary generation method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus for generating a degraded dictionary automatically is presented in this invention. Herein, a degraded pattern generating means generates a plurality of degraded patterns from...
7477426 Image correcting apparatus and method, program, storage medium, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus  
An image correcting apparatus is provided for preventing a degraded image quality which can be caused by a three-dimensional distortion correction made to a scanned image distorted in a trapezoidal...
7475061 Image-based document indexing and retrieval  
A system that facilitates document retrieval and/or indexing is provided. A component receives an image of a document, and a search component searches data store(s) for a match to the document...
7472348 Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium using character size and width for magnification  
According to the present invention, the quality of a small character can be prevented from lowering during copy of an image in an original. An image in an original is read by a scanner, and a...
7471830 Preprocessing device and method for recognizing image characters  
Disclosed is a device and method for recognizing characters in an image. An input part receives the image. A blurring decision part classifies the received image into character blocks and...
7471826 Character segmentation by slices  
A method for segmentation of characters in text that segments text into lines, words and slices and determines at least one of fixed pitch and proportional pitch prior to segmentation. The method...
7469061 Method of photo/text separation in an image  
A method of photo/text separation, which includes converting a document image into a plurality of source color planes, setting a source color consecutive point threshold (Tc), performing an...
7460708 System, program, and method for generating visual-guidance information  
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a system to generate visual-guidance information in which the system can be reduced in size and cost and which ensures a proper eye flow. A...
7454063 Method of optical character recognition using feature recognition and baseline estimation  
The present invention is a method of optical character recognition. First, text is received. Next all words in the text are identified and associated with the appropriate line in the document. The...
7454060 Image processor for character recognition  
In image processing of a document having image data of a document including an image with character images on a background image, the character images and the background image thereof are...
7450758 Stylization of video  
The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a system for stylizing video, such as interactively transforming video to a cartoon-like style. Briefly stated, the techniques include...
7450268 Image reproduction  
A method of reproducing an image, comprising: creating a, or using an already existing, bitmap-input image; finding zones in the input image containing text; determining colors of pixels,...
7450263 System and method for image rotation  
A prepress system includes a raster image processor (RIP) which produces RIP data. The system includes a rotation system which modifies the RIP data to rotate images defined by the RIP data. The...
7447365 Systems and methods for mixed raster conversion in direct printing  
A system for compressing image data being sent to an imaging device is disclosed. The system includes a computing device with executable instructions. The executable instructions are executable on...