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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...
7616333 Electronic ink processing and application programming interfaces  
An application programming interface instantiates an ink analyzer object that receives document data for a document containing electronic ink content from a software application hosting 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...
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....
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...
7596269 Triggering actions in response to optically or acoustically capturing keywords from a rendered document  
A system for processing text captured from rendered documents is described. The system receives a sequence of one or more words optically or acoustically captured from a rendered document by a...
7593574 Ink warping for normalization and beautification / ink beautification  
Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate normalizing and beautifying digitally generated handwriting, such as can be generated on a tablet PC or via scanning a handwritten document. A...
7593572 Ink-parser-parameter optimization  
Ink-parser-parameter optimization may be performed via parallel processing to accelerate searching for a set of optimal ink-parser parameters. Evaluators may parse pages of ink notes with different...
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...
7532756 Grayscale character dictionary generation apparatus  
A grayscale character dictionary generation apparatus, comprising a first synthetic grayscale degraded character image generation unit for generating first synthetic grayscale degraded character...
7526128 Line extraction in digital ink  
A method and system of line extraction in a digital ink sequence of handwritten text data points, the method including the steps of: obtaining are provided in which a stroke sequence comprised of a...
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...
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...
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...
7460711 Efficient method for reading meter values by processing digital images of a meter  
A method for reading a meter includes (1) capturing a first image of digits displayed by the meter, (2) roughly locating the digits by correlating the entire first image against symbols, (3)...
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...
7437001 Method and device for recognition of a handwritten pattern  
A method for recognition of a handwritten pattern comprises the steps of forming ( 4 ) a representation of the handwritten pattern, forming ( 6 ) at least two subconfigurations by dividing the...
7436994 System of using neural network to distinguish text and picture in images and method thereof  
This specification discloses a system of using a neural network to distinguish text and pictures in an image and the method thereof. Using the knowledge of text recognition learned by the neural...
7430497 Statistical model for global localization  
A system and process for determining the location of a captured image from a larger image is described. Using a list of determined locations, the system is able to determine the best or most likely...
7412095 Preprocessing of multi-line rotated electronic ink  
An electronic ink object is preprocessed for improving handwriting recognition results. An electronic ink object, possibly having multiple lines of non-horizontal ink, is preprocessed by segmenting...
7403656 Method and apparatus for recognition of character string in scene image  
A character recognition method that is robust under an unknown illumination condition is provided. An apparatus for realizing such robust character recognition includes plural different...
7400768 Enhanced optical recognition of digitized images through selective bit insertion  
The present invention describes a process for enhancing optical recognition of text in scanned documents. Prior to performing optical recognition for identification of text in scanned documents, a...
7391419 Information distribution system  
An information distribution system configured to deliver various types of content provided by an information distributor to information receivers through a network and transmitting the content to...
7336827 System, process and software arrangement for recognizing handwritten characters  
A process and system are provided for determining a most likely combination of characters. In particular, character data which includes information indicative of at least one handwritten character...
7336378 Image processing with recognized character codes  
In an image processor for a character image included in an image data to be processed, character codes are recognized, and character sizes of the characters in the character image are recognized. A...
7327881 Image reading apparatus  
A labeling process unit groups a continuous black pixel area as one group in the binary image data read by an image input device, and extracts the group bounding rectangle information about the...
7307760 Raster image path architecture  
A raster image path architecture having the capacity for supporting the rendering and output of a device-independent grayscale raster image, while also offering the capacity for supporting the...
7305435 Internet access via smartphone camera  
A mobile device, system, method, and software for communicating with the internet utilizing a written universal resource locator (URL). A camera unit is used to receive a raw visual light image...
7302098 Character segmentation method and apparatus  
An electronic device ( 1100 ) and a method for character segmentation ( 100 ) includes an image analyzer ( 1110 ) that generates individual character images. The image analyzer binarizes ( 115 ) a...
7295710 System and method for automated symbolic recognition including symbolic modeling  
An automated symbolic recognition system and method includes pre-stored symbolic models to support a three phase symbolic reshaping scheme during the symbol recognition process that includes: (a)...
7292714 Method, device and software for separating the individual subjects of an anatomical structure segmented from 3D datasets of medical examination procedures  
The invention relates to a method for carrying out the imaging processing of data sets of three-dimensional characters obtained from medical examination methods. According to the invention, a...
7283669 Fine segmentation refinement for an optical character recognition system  
A method and computer program product are disclosed for refining character segmentation in an optical character recognition system receiving as input a plurality of candidate objects. Each...
7272258 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...
7269274 Digital watermark embedding method, digital watermark extraction method, digital watermark embedding apparatus, and digital watermark extraction apparatus  
An apparatus for embedding a digital watermark in a document image detects circumscribing outer shapes of characters in the document image and sets a plurality of reference lines that extend in the...
7260238 Digital watermark embedding method, apparatus, digital watermark extraction method and apparatus  
Distance d 1 between the right edges of A 1 and B 2 , and distance d 2 between the right edges of A 3 and B 4 are calculated. If data to be embedded is 1, one or a combination of a process for...
7236643 System and method for filtering and binarization of images in the presence of specular noise  
In order to render information contained in images more detectable in the presence of noise, the present invention discloses a system and method to binarize the images in the presence of noise. The...
7233697 Character recognition device and a method therefor  
The present invention relates to an optical character recognition device (OCR) for reading a form provided with character frames in reading fields, into which a user fills each character....
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...
7218779 Ink divider and associated application program interface  
Methods for communicating between an application and an ink divider object (which stores ink strokes to be divided into groups) may include: (a) issuing a divide request to the ink divider object,...
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...
7190833 Mobile device and transmission system  
The invention relates to a mobile device with a built-in image capture device, and a character recognition function to present the information gathered with the character recognition result. With...
7162065 Prostate boundary segmentation from 2D and 3D ultrasound images  
A fast semi-automatic prostate contouring method is provided using model-based initialization and an efficient Discrete Dynamic Contour (DDC) for boundary refinement. The user initiates the process...
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...
7106905 Systems and methods for processing text-based electronic documents  
Systems and methods for processing text-based electronic documents are provided. Briefly described, one embodiment of a method for processing a text-based electronic document comprises the steps...
7106893 Method and apparatus for segmenting small structures in images  
A method for segmenting a small feature in a multidimensional digital array of intensity values in a data processor computes an edge metric along each ray of a plurality of multidimensional rays...
7099507 Method and system for extracting title from document image  
A title is determined from a document image of an unspecified format based upon likelihood of containing a title in each of minimal circumscribing rectangles. The likelihood is determined based...
7095891 Pattern segmentation apparatus and pattern recognition apparatus  
A pattern segmentation apparatus and a pattern recognition apparatus can improve the segmentation precision of a character touching pattern. The pattern segmentation apparatus includes a feature...
7092567 Post-processing system and method for correcting machine recognized text  
A method of post-processing character data from an optical character recognition (OCR) engine and apparatus to perform the method. This exemplary method includes segmenting the character data into...
7079686 Systems and methods for content-based document image enhancement  
A system can include a system processor that is programmed or adapted to classify pixels in a document image, and in some instances, to enhance the document image based upon such classification....
7054029 Image processing apparatus and method, and storage medium  
Upon synthesizing objects, information bits indicating the types of objects are lost. To solve this problem, this invention provides an image processing apparatus having discrimination means for...
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