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6694045 Generation and verification of a digitized signature  
Digitized signatures are recorded in respective digitized signature records. Each digitized signature record includes at least the position of each point of a signature in coordinates relative to a...
6694055 Proper name identification in chinese  
A word segmentation method to identify proper names in input text includes locating a sequence of single-characters in the input text not forming part of a multiple-character word. The method...
6681372 Information processing apparatus and method for making document  
An information processing apparatus and method capable of making a desired document using a simple operation based on highly object oriented features. In an embodiment, all writings in a source...
6681045 Method and system for note taking  
A method and system for enabling handwritten note taking and retrieval, whereby a user is able to electronically capture, manage and search notes handwritten on paper by the user using one or more...
6671403 Pattern recognition apparatus and method utilizing conversion to a common scale by a linear function  
Two different recognition processing units respectively perform a plurality of different recognition processing operations for the pattern to be recognized input from a character input unit, and...
6668081 Pattern recognition system  
A touchpad pointing device utilized as a pattern input device for a pattern recognition system. The input pattern received from the touchpad pointing device is translated into a start application...
6665436 Method and system for automatically segmenting and recognizing handwritten chinese characters  
This invention discloses a method for automatically segmenting and recognizing Chinese character strings continuously written by a user in a handwritten Chinese character processing system,...
6661920 Method and apparatus for multiple simultaneously active data entry mechanisms on a computer system  
A method and system providing simultaneous data entry for a computer system having both on-screen keyboard entry and mechanisms for handwriting recognition entry. In one embodiment, a portable or...
6654496 Method and apparatus for selecting symbols using strokes on a user interface  
A method, apparatus, and system are provided for selecting a symbol using a user interface having at least one selectable button adjacent a surface actuated when contacted by a pointing device....
6647145 Means for inputting characters or commands into a computer  
An apparatus and method for inputting a hand-generated character into a computer. A user draws a character using a drawing apparatus. As the user draws, movement of the apparatus and...
6636631 Optical character reading method and system for a document with ruled lines and its application  
A method of recognizing characters of a document including ruled lines. After separating the characters from the ruled lines, a bounding box and a corresponding character pattern are extracted for...
6633671 Camera-based handwriting tracking  
A system for processing handwriting that uses an ordinary camera as an image input device. The output of a single camera is used to produce a probability function that indicates the likelihood of...
6626955 Method for displaying editable characters in a divided table cell  
A divided table cell is generated by selecting one cell in a table and creating a new cell to display over the selected cell. Both cells contain a constraint that define an area where that cell...
6618504 Business management system  
A reading apparatus ( 10 ) comprising means for detecting pen point coordinate changes over time, for handwriting made by pen on writing media, and means for generating handwriting data indicating...
6614931 Handwritten instructions for messaging appliances  
A messaging device has a message reception component configured to receive a printable message from a message originator, and a printer that prints the received message and that also prints an...
6606662 Portable terminal apparatus and communication method thereof  
The authorization of a user is performed in such a way that the user inputs one or more characters to a portable terminal apparatus using a pen input apparatus, and the handwriting of the input...
6603881 Spatial sorting and formatting for handwriting recognition  
Systems and methods for reordering unconstrained handwriting data using both spatial and temporal interrelationships prior to recognition, and for spatially organizing and formatting machine...
6600834 Handwriting information processing system with character segmentation user interface  
This invention discloses a handwriting information processing system, comprising handwriting information input means and handwriting information recognition means, said handwriting information...
6597809 Rollup functions for efficient storage presentation and analysis of data  
Methods of organizing a series of sibling data entities in a digital computer are provided for preserving sibling ranking information associated with the sibling data entities and for attaching the...
6587818 System and method for resolving decoding ambiguity via dialog  
A method of language recognition wherein decoding ambiguities are identified and at least partially resolved intermediate to the language decoding procedures to reduce the subsequent number of...
6587577 On-line signature verification  
A method of determining whether a test sample belongs to the same individual as a plurality of reference samples. The method includes providing respective values of one or more identifying features...
6580826 Method and apparatus for parametric representation of handwritten symbols  
A method for encoding handwritten symbols operates upon penstroke data received from a device capable of sampling a stylus position at discrete intervals. Each handwritten symbol is segmented into...
6571013 Automatic method for developing custom ICR engines  
A computer automated feature selection method based upon the evaluation of hyper-rectangles and the ability of these rectangles to discriminate between classes. The boundaries of the...
6567552 Image processing method and apparatus  
Stroke information from pen-down to pen-up being one unit is grouped automatically so that editing thereafter can be performed efficiently. Grouping of stroke information is determined in...
6567548 Handwriting recognition system and method using compound characters for improved recognition accuracy  
A handwriting recognition system and method whereby various character sequences (which are typically “slurred” together when handwritten) are each modelled as a single character (“compound...
6563948 Using an electronic camera to build a file containing text  
An embodiment of the invention is directed to a method of building an electronic file, using an electronic camera such as a digital camera, that captures 3-dimensional objects. A number of image...
6556712 Methods and apparatus for handwriting recognition  
Method and apparatus for handwriting recognition system for ideographies characters and other characters based on subcharacter hidden Markov models. The ideographies characters are modeled using a...
6549675 Compression of digital ink  
Compression of digital ink is achieved by calculating second order differences between consecutive elements in the digital ink and applying the differences to a Huffman encoder to produce a...
6546133 Methods and apparatus for print scraping  
Systems and processes that automate receiving of unstructured information contained in electronic documents, detecting the document type, determining the corresponding document format, extracting...
6546134 System for assessment of fine motor control in humans  
A biometric machine method for instantaneous assessment of the fine motor control of a human individual through analysis of that individual's handwriting dynamics in which the dynamic data...
6539113 Radical definition and dictionary creation for a handwriting recognition system  
The system described herein automatically defines a set of radicals to be used in a Kanji character handwriting recognition system and automatically creates a dictionary of the Kanji characters...
6535619 Address recognition apparatus and method  
When a pattern of an address to be recognized is input, contact characters are separated after determining the contact position of the contact characters. A key character is extracted by...
6526170 Character recognition system  
A character recognition system is disclosed, In a feature extraction parameter storage section 22 a transformation matrix for reducing a number of dimensions of feature parameters and a codebook...
6525716 Handwritten data input device having coordinate detection tablet  
A handwritten data input device comprises a coordinate detection tablet for detecting handwritten data input by handwriting with an input pen, and a program recording medium therefore, and is...
6496600 Font type identification  
An optical character recognition system identifies a font type for an image of a block of text. Key characters matching characters in a pre-defined character set are located in the text block. The...
6490563 Proofreading with text to speech feedback  
A computer implemented system and method of proofreading text in a computer system includes receiving text from a user into a text editing module. At least a portion of the text is converted to an...
6487310 Signature matching  
The invention is of an “elastic matching” method for comparing one signature against another, comprising the operations of creating a mapping between corresponding points in two signatures to...
6477274 Handwritten character recognition devices and electronic devices incorporating same  
Input devices for use with radiotelephones, and other electronic devices, recognize and display handwritten alphanumeric characters on a display. A plurality of adjacent touch switches are arranged...
6466694 Document image processing device and method thereof  
A processing device performs region identification of an input image, and then performs an intra-region recognition process. The type code of each region and the individual code of a recognition...
6456740 System and method for identifying form type in a handwriting recognition based form completion system  
The system of the present invention includes a form design component, a form description repository, and a forms processing component Each form used with the system has a layout including a form...
6453070 Diacritical processing for unconstrained, on-line handwriting recognition using a forward search  
Handwritten ink is scanned to identify potential diacriticals. A list of diacriticals ( 19 ) is generated by traversing the ink. Potential diacritical-containing characters are processed by scoring...
6445820 Method for conducting analysis of handwriting  
A method for electronic analysis of handwriting samples. A digital bit-map of handwriting samples created, using a digital camera or electronic scanner. The bit-map is then marked at selected...
6438523 Processing handwritten and hand-drawn input and speech input  
Techniques consistent with this invention process handwritten or hand-drawn input and speech input. Method steps include recognizing received handwritten or hand-drawn input, recognizing received...
6421461 PATTERN RECOGNITION APPARATUS WHICH COMPARES INPUT PATTERN FEATURE AND SIZE DATA TO REGISTERED FEATURE AND SIZE PATTERN DATA, AN APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING FEATURE AND SIZE DATA, AND CORRESPONDING METHODS AND MEMORY MEDIA THEREFOR  
A pattern recognition system which includes an input device for inputting a pattern and a character code, an extractor for extracting feature data from the input pattern, a detector for detecting...
6418239 Method and mechanism for providing partial results in full context handwriting recognition  
A method and mechanism for displaying partial results of full context handwriting recognition. As handwritten characters are entered into a system, a shape matcher associates the character with a...
6411732 Method for interpreting hand drawn diagrammatic user interface commands  
This invention discloses image analysis techniques supporting the interpretation of marks on a large drawing board for purposes of controlling a Board transcription device. In order for users to...
6408092 Handwritten input in a restricted area  
Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for processing handwritten marks made on a machine-readable tablet. The technique includes providing multiple regions for input on the tablet;...
6408091 Information processing method and apparatus with mixing of processing command input strokes and input strokes for patterns  
The present invention is to discriminate and extract a gesture stroke from a group of input strokes when inputting, in a batch processing, both a character or symbol of strokes to be processed and...
6396598 Method and apparatus for electronic memo processing for integrally managing document including paper document and electronic memo added to the document  
An electronic memo adding and displaying apparatus 50 includes a tablet with integrated display for electronically acquiring an electronic memo to a document input by a user through a virtual...
6396951 Document-based query data for information retrieval  
To obtain a query for use in information retrieval, a document is scanned. The resulting text image data define an image of a segment of text in a first language. Automatic recognition is then...