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6198847 Apparatus and method for recognizing a nonuniformly sampled pattern  
In a pattern recognition apparatus, light from an original on which a pattern to be recognized is depicted is focused by an optical system. The focused image is sampled by a two-dimensional array...
6195677 Distributed network computing system for data exchange/conversion between terminals  
A data exchange unit is arranged in a server. Service data provided as an application service is converted into a predetermined format on the basis of the attribute data of a terminal as a...
6192150 Invariant texture matching method for image retrieval  
A method and apparatus matches texture patterns in a way that is invariant to the intensities, scales, and orientations of the texture patterns. The texture matching apparatus includes a texture...
6185331 Switched-current fuzzy processor for pattern recognition  
A switched-current fuzzy processor for pattern recognition is provided, which is specifically designed to operate in current mode for high performance. The switched-current fuzzy processor includes...
6185330 Device and record medium for pattern matching encoding/decoding of binary still images  
A pattern matching encoding device for executing pattern matching encoding of binary still images and a pattern matching decoding device corresponding to the pattern matching encoding device are...
6181819 Image processing apparatus including means for judging a chromatic portion of an image  
An image processing apparatus and method includes a device for judging the degree of color or lack of color of an input color image signal, judging dot areas in input color image signal and...
6167144 Image processing apparatus and image processing method for identifying a landing location on the moon or planets  
An image processing apparatus and method for identifying a safe landing location on the surface of the moon or planets calculates local average brightness and brightness variance in a neighborhood...
6151411 Point symmetry shaping method used for curved figure and point symmetry shaping apparatus thereof  
In a point symmetry shaping apparatus used for a curved figure, any unrecorded symmetry figures are automatically shaped in a point symmetry manner within a short processing time. In the point...
6130962 Information retrieval apparatus for enabling information retrieval with ambiguous retrieval key  
An input unit outputs handwritten data as stroke data to a control unit. The control unit stores the outputted stroke data in a handwritten memo database without recognizing the handwritten data as...
6125209 Database accessing method and apparatus  
Apparatus for accessing a database having database records comprising data-compressed image data comprises a database server apparatus operable to respond to a database query by returning database...
6115498 Character image generating apparatus and method therefor  
A character generating apparatus for generating a character image representing a character and a method therefor, which are capable of preventing a flicker phenomenon, which occurs in the...
6115513 Information input method and apparatus using a target pattern and an access indication pattern  
An information input method and interface, which can easily be operated without direct awareness of hardware, are provided. Image recognition is performed with an image recognition unit on image...
6111983 Determination of image shapes using training and sectoring  
For enhanced accuracy in determining a shape in an image, a shape model can be trained for parameter settings, based on training data for which the desired shape is specified. Such training can be...
6108098 Image processing apparatus and method  
Color space conversion and correction processing are performed on inputted R, G and B image data 1 by an RF converter 2, and Y, M, C and K image data 3 is obtained. In the case where Y, M, C and K...
6097839 Method and apparatus for automatic discriminating and locating patterns such as finder patterns, or portions thereof, in machine-readable symbols  
A method and apparatus for locating geometric shapes or edges thereof in data collection symbols initially samples and stores an image of light reflected from the symbol. Thereafter, two routines...
6094484 Isomorphic pattern recognition  
The present invention is a system and method for character recognition using pattern recognition. In one embodiment of the invention, a plurality of representations of a plurality of characters is...
6091852 Method of pattern recognition and method of creating an n-dimensional object  
The invention concerns a method of pattern recognition in which the pattern of an n-dimensional object is captured by a data-processing device which can image and process the n-dimensional object...
6084989 System and method for automatically determining the position of landmarks in digitized images derived from a satellite-based imaging system  
A system and method for determining offset errors between line and pixel coordinates of landmarks in a digitized image generated by an imaging system disposed on a spacecraft and line and pixel...
6079862 Automatic tracking lighting equipment, lighting controller and tracking apparatus  
Automatic tracking lighting equipment for automatically tracking a target to be illuminated. A spotlight is supported for pivoting in horizontal and vertical directions on a ceiling surface. A...
6081620 System and method for pattern recognition  
A method for recognizing patterns comprising extracting features from a digital image, generating a numerical representation of each feature, indexing into a look-up table using the numerical...
6081619 Movement pattern recognizing apparatus for detecting movements of human bodies and number of passed persons  
A movement pattern recognizing apparatus has a movement signal detection device including a sensor for detecting a mobile body in a detection region and for providing a movement signal indicating...
6072915 Process for pattern searching and a device for positioning of a mask to a workpiece  
A process for pattern searching in which position coordinates of patterns on a workpiece with a rough surface can be determined automatically and with high precision, and a device for executing the...
6055332 Handwritten character and symbol processing apparatus and medium which stores control program of handwritten character and symbol processing apparatus  
A purpose of the handwriting recognition device is to retrieve handwritten characters and symbols at high speed and easily. The stroke data input from the stroke data input part through handwritten...
6049329 Method of and system for facilitating user input into a small GUI window using a stylus  
A method of and system for facilitating stylus input into a text entry field in a pen-based computer system. The system detects a touch down of a stylus and determines whether the touch down is in...
6049627 Covert digital identifying indicia for digital image  
A method and system for affixing covert identifying indicia to a digital image document, by altering pixel luminance and/or saturation in the image in selected areas of the image to a selected...
6034685 Data inputting devices  
When data is keyed in by operating a keyboard K displayed in a touch panel input area 14a, its character code is stored in a real data memory 46b of a RAM 23 and data on its attribute, pointer and...
6031936 Handwriting detecting and storing apparatus  
A handwriting detecting and storing apparatus comprises a lens having a cone shape at front-most position of a lens system which introduces handwriting image to image pick up means such as a charge...
6023528 Non-edit multiple image font processing of records  
A sequence of documents is delivered to an optical scanner in which each document is scanned to form a digital image representation of the content of the document. The image representation is...
6014459 Image forming apparatus  
The apparatus reads an original by an image reader, and if it recognizes caption(s) included in the original, stores a page number of the original into a memory, thereafter, performs copying based...
6005492 Road lane recognizing apparatus  
A road lane recognizing apparatus can accurately recognize a road lane position from an image shown by an actual road surface image signal obtained by picturing a road surface in front of a vehicle...
6002808 Hand gesture control system  
A system is provided for rapidly recognizing hand gestures for the control of computer graphics, in which image moment calculations are utilized to determine an overall equivalent rectangle...
5995660 Image processing apparatus  
The present invention has an object to determine whether image data is generated by data processing such as PDL, or optically captured scan-in image, for each area. To achieve the object, a...
5995652 Pattern searching method using neural networks and correlation  
A pattern searching method using neural networks and correlation. This method combines the quickness and adaptiveness of neural networks with the accuracy of the mathematical correlation approach....
5978801 Character and/or character-string retrieving method and storage medium for use for this method  
A character and/or character-string retrieving method with retrieves a plurality of patterns at a time by using a single deterministic finite automaton prepared from a plurality of different...
5977890 Method and apparatus for data compression utilizing efficient pattern discovery  
The method of the present invention discovers patterns in an sequence of characters in two phases. In a sampling phase, preferably proper templates corresponding to the sequence of characters are...
5969753 Method and system for detecting errors in a sample image  
A method and system are described for use at a machine vision station to correctly identify errors within a sample image of an object by means of a probability image where a value of each pixel of...
5960113 Method of automatically recognizing a language in which digital data is received  
An automatic language recognition method which comprises selecting a block of data from the received data and searching said block for elements that are "for" or "against" the presence of a...
5956422 Processor based method for extracting tablets from printed documents  
A processor based method for recognizing, capturing and storing tabular data receives digital-computer data representing a document either as a pixel-format document-image, or as formatted text....
5946415 Method and apparatus to process drawing images  
The processing time and memory in converting scanned images to a hardware scription language is significantly reducer by using a "peephole" method to examine only partial images of features of the...
5940535 Method and apparatus for designing a highly reliable pattern recognition system  
A design for a high reliability recognition system utilizes two optimized thresholds for each class k of a prototype data base. One threshold is a class region threshold CR k and the other is a...
5926565 Computer method for processing records with images and multiple fonts  
A sequence of documents is delivered to an optical scanner in which each document is scanned to form a digital image representation of the content of the document. The image representation is...
5920658 Efficient image position correction system and method  
This is directed to a method and a system for efficiently performing an image input positional adjustment prior to image or character recognition for data entry into a computer system.
5920477 Human factored interface incorporating adaptive pattern recognition based controller apparatus  
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...
5915037 Method and device for the binarization of pixel data  
The invention concerns a method and device for binarization of pixel data in which a number of black-and-white binary images each having binarization characteristics of different degrees of...
5915042 Coding and decoding methods and apparatus for compressing and expanding image data  
An image is divided into blocks of N consecutive pixels, and each block is coded with reference to M reference pixels, where M and N are integers greater than one. Different patterns of N pixels...
5912984 Method and apparatus for in-line solder paste inspection  
Inspection of solder paste on a printed circuit board using a before printing image (pre-image) to normalize an after printing image (post-image) of the printed circuit board. Existing lighting and...
5912996 Method of enhancing the signal-to-noise within the pixel image of a hand entered symbol  
An input carrier sheet 12C for document distribution system 10 carries input symbols hand entered by the user into pre-existing constraint grids 12. The constraint grids may be printed in...
5909508 Parallel image-clustering apparatus  
In an image clustering apparatus for classifying an image into plural clusters, modification of cluster parameter is executed by parallel processing as well as parallel processing of comparison of...
5909510 Method and apparatus for document classification from degraded images  
A word shape token-based document classification system prepares a plurality of sets of training data degraded by image quality and selects the optimum training data set by examining scores from a...
5909602 Image forming apparatus having a specimen image judging section and an image information suitability judging section  
In the present image forming system, when a digital copying machine having no specimen image judging section makes a copy, it transfers an input image to an image processing apparatus having the...