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7606421 Data extraction from temporal image data  
In a method and system to extract data from handwritten information when the information is captured as sequences of strokes, vectors, or marks, temporal data is stored within the color or...
7583841 Table detection in ink notes  
Computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions and apparatuses detect a table in a handwritten document. Line segments are derived from drawing strokes so that a bounding frame of...
7583816 Device for detecting a road traveling lane using an edge histogram  
A device for detecting a road traveling lane, which is capable of stably defining a position of a boundary of a traveling lane. The device has edge point detection means (ED) for detecting a...
7551173 Pixel accurate edges for scanline rendering system  
A method ( 2500 ) of converting a monotonic curve into edge information is disclosed. A method ( 2800 A) of determining an integer edge crossing value, Xi, for a new edge crossed by a scanline...
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...
7499055 Method of font generation for displaying the thickness of strokes of characters  
The present invention employs the notion of a Chinese writing brush in moving a geometric figure to produce a style of calligraphy, where the area of the geometric figure is large or small, then...
7496232 Distinguishing text from non-text in digital ink  
A discriminative machine learning system for labels text and non-text strokes in digital ink. The learning system considers stroke features and the context of the strokes, such as temporal...
7480413 Image processing device  
An image processing device is structured such that an appropriate judgement of an image, at which blurring or disappearance or the like will occur, is possible. When pixels, which form a line image...
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...
7450763 Reshaping freehand drawn lines and shapes in an electronic document  
The invention improves the appearance of freehand drawn lines and shapes in an electronic document by first recognizing freehand drawn lines and shapes and generating a line made up of sequential...
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...
7369261 Sensing device for enabling interaction between a computer and a form printed on a surface  
A sensing device for enabling interaction between a computer and a form printed on a surface. The form includes one or more first viewable information zones relating to one or more available...
7343042 Method and system for identifying a paper form using a digital pen  
The present application describes systems and methods for composing documents using a digital pointing instrument. In further configurations, a user utilizes a pen to trace a form serial number...
7321692 Method, device and computer program product for processing information in a memory  
A method, computer readable medium and device are provided for freeing memory in a device with limited memory, in which a plurality of pen strokes have been recorded, in electronic form in the...
7305612 Systems and methods for automatic form segmentation for raster-based passive electronic documents  
Systems and methods for automatically extracting form information (document structure, elements, format, etc.) from electronic documents such as raster-based passive documents, and storing such...
7302111 Graphics engine for high precision lithography  
The present invention includes a method to use a phase modulating micromirror array to create an intensity image that has high image fidelity, good stability through focus and good x-y symmetry....
7286139 Partial guardband clipping  
A method for rendering a visible portion of an image that includes a plurality of graphics primitives. The size of the graphics primitives may be large and require the use of floating point numbers...
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,...
7200282 Implementation of Hough transform and its application in line detection and video motion analysis  
An implementation of Hough transform is described. According to one aspect, the Hough transform is used for line detection in an image based on a one-dimensional voting array.
7164430 Anti-aliasing line pixel coverage calculation using programmable shader  
A system and method for rendering a non-zero thickness line on a pixel-limited output device such that aliasing of the line is reduced. The edges defining a line segment are expanded to insure that...
7146047 Image processing apparatus and method generating binary image from a multilevel image  
An information processing apparatus extracts a plurality of strokes from a multilevel image, and generates a stroke binary image. Next, the image processing apparatus extracts feature amounts...
7123770 Incremental system for real time digital ink analysis  
Flexible and efficient systems and methods for organizing, analyzing, and processing digital ink incrementally analyze input data (e.g., representing ink strokes) as the user continues to add to,...
7092550 Implementation of hough transform and its application in video motion analysis  
An implementation of Hough transform is described. According to one aspect, the Hough transform is used to perform motion analysis of patterns in a video using two-dimensional primary data items...
7006670 Image processing method, image processing system and program  
A technique which can generate stable virtual page marks even in a non-OCR form to stably identify the form. Key segments which can be stably detected within a form are predefined for the detection...
7003159 Document frame recognition system and method  
Frames such as boxes or rectangles are recognized in image document data. A first determination process initially screens frames by applying a first set of criteria to select frame candidates. The...
6999622 Stroke data editing device  
A stroke data editing device, for editing stroke data, indicating at least one stroke of a coordinate input device, comprising, a stroke data storage unit that stores stroke data, each piece of the...
6965384 In-situ digital inking for applications  
A digital ink environment is provided for non-native ink application programs to create independent ink services for sharing between different application programs and transmission. The digital ink...
6891971 Recognition process  
A recognition process for handwritten characters, including generating sub-segments representing at least one character stroke, the sub-segments each having a boundary enclosing the at least one...
6876763 Image resolution improvement using a color mosaic sensor  
A method for electronic imaging, consisting of forming an image having a background color and a non-background color on a plurality of pixels in a color mosaic image sensor, and receiving from each...
6870959 Method for automatic removal of vertical streaks by modifying image data associated with non-homogenous image elements  
A method for automatic removal of vertical streaks involves a comparison between image data for a pixel and its neighbor pixels to determine whether the pixel is non-homogenous. In a preferred...
6845177 Method and apparatus for monitoring an analog meter  
A method and apparatus for remote monitoring of an analog meter is set out which employs a Hough Transform on the edge points of the meter scale to obtain the center of the scale. The graduation...
6829388 System of detecting road white line, method for detecting road white line and storage medium storing program for detecting road white line  
A system and method are provided which are capable of reliably and effectively detecting a white line in an upper region of a road image by dividing the road image into, at least, two regions...
6813383 Linear mark detecting method and device  
Only points on a linear mark image is detected as linear mark characteristic points without influence of surrounding structures and noise, so that reliability is improved on detecting a linear...
6813381 Method and apparatus for identification of documents, and computer product  
In the document identification apparatus, a ruled line feature extraction section determines a black pixel ratio of a document to be identified, and adds the black pixel ratio for each block to...
6813367 Method and apparatus for site selection for data embedding  
A differential color or luminance signal is used to embed a binary message in selected stroke segments in the text of a document and for extracting a message so embedded. The bits representing the...
6798906 Image processing apparatus and method including line segment data extraction  
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and method that enables extraction of line segments of an arbitrary width from multi-valued images not uniform in background. To extract...
6795579 Method and apparatus for recognizing handwritten chinese characters  
A method for recognizing handwritten Chinese characters based on stroke recognition comprises steps of: recognizing handwritten strokes, updating stroke code sequences; retrieving in...
6792146 Method and apparatus for entry of multi-stroke characters  
A method or apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention allows for entry of multi-stroke characters via a natural drawing interface and without requiring an expensive stylus-drawing...
6785420 Method and apparatus for table recognition, apparatus for character recognition, and computer product  
The character recognition apparatus incorporates a table recognition section. This table recognition section extracts circumscribing rectangles from connected components of black pixels on a whole...
6778699 Method of determining vanishing point location from an image  
A method of determining a vanishing point related to an image, the method includes the steps of: detecting line segments in the image; determining intersections from pairs of line segments;...
6731803 Points based handwriting recognition system  
A points based handwriting recognition system is suitable for hand held processor implemented devices with small touch pad writing surfaces. The writing surface is divided into a grid by a number...
6721452 System and method of handwritten character recognition  
An “activity”-based system and method for on-line character recognition that requires reduced amounts of memory for code or data, is alphabet-independent, and can be trained by entering the...
6714679 Boundary analyzer  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for analyzing a boundary of an object. An embodiment for determining defects of a boundary to sub-pixel precision and an embodiment for fast correlation scoring...
6674906 Method and apparatus for detecting edges in a mixed image  
A method and apparatus for detecting edges by which the detection of the edges of a natural image from an image obtained by mixing the graphic or text and the natural image is suppressed, to...
6665437 Method for recognizing multi-language printed documents using strokes and non-strokes of characters  
Disclosed is a method for recognizing multi-language printed documents, a method for extracting character features according to the present invention, the method comprising the steps of: a)...
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....
6648730 Calibration tool  
Generally a method and apparatus for determining a position of an object is provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a locating plate, a window and a camera. The camera is positioned to...
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...
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...
6587587 System and methods for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting, printing and drawings  
A system for spacing, storing and recognizing electronic representations of handwriting and printing comprises a central processing unit that couples with a display device, an input device, and a...
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