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5469513 Method and apparatus for generating pattern  
A character pattern generating apparatus for generating a bit map data from outline data corresponding to a pattern having a curve portion comprises: a discriminating circuit to discriminate a size...
5467402 Distributed image recognizing system and traffic flow instrumentation system and crime/disaster preventing system using such image recognizing system  
A plurality of image recognizing systems which are distributed and arranged and a centralized control apparatus are mutually connected via transmission lines. Each of the image recognizing...
5448653 Line segment attribute recognition device having accuracy updating function  
Information regarding the line segments constituting a line figure is input from an input section. An initial degree of certainty with respect to the attribute of each of the line segments is...
5446803 Image signal processing apparatus  
Disclosed is an image signal processing apparatus in which the position of an input image can be corrected easily irrespective of the shape of the input image by use of attribute information...
5444797 Method and apparatus for automatic character script determination  
An automatic script determining apparatus automatically determines the gross script-type of the text image of a document. A connected component generating means generates connected components from...
5426712 Method and apparatus for describing a character image based on its contours, and for classifying the character image for character recognition based on a resulting contour-based description of the character image  
A code set includes a first type of code for indicating a maximal point of a contour of an image, and a second type of code for indicating a minimal point of the contour of the image. The code set...
5424823 System for identifying flat orthogonal objects using reflected energy signals  
An improved system for using reflected energy signals sensed by light detecting optics to identify flat surfaces that are orthogonal to the detecting optics. A light source generates a laser light...
5412742 Method for the detection of line width of line image in image processor  
An image processor for performing trace processing for tracing the line image has an image memory for storing image data, a data memory for storing graphic data, a display unit for displaying the...
5410613 Pattern recognizing apparatus  
A pattern recognizing apparatus includes an image pick-up device for picking up an image of a component for teaching and an image of a component to be recognized, and a feature value calculating...
5408538 Method of and apparatus for inspecting the minimum annular width of a land on a printed circuit board  
A printed pattern is provided with a wiring pattern having a land and a through hole surrounded by the land. The wiring pattern and the through hole are read by a photoelectric image sensor to...
5390259 Methods and apparatus for selecting semantically significant images in a document image without decoding image content  
A method and apparatus for processing a document image, using a programmed general or special purpose computer, includes forming the image into image units, and at least one image unit classifier...
5384863 Methods and apparatus for automatic modification of semantically significant portions of a document without document image decoding  
Methods and apparatus of processing an undecoded document image in a digital computer to modify the document image so as to emphasize semantically significant portions without first converting the...
5351310 Generalized shape autocorrelation for shape acquisition and recognition  
The invention provides automatic acquisition and recognition of complex visual shapes within images. During an acquisition phase, models are derived from interest points acquired from a target...
5347591 Method of and device for determining positioning between a hole and a wiring pattern on a printed circuit board by utilizing a set of area values  
A printed board, on which a wiring pattern and a through hole to be inspected are provided, is scanned pixel by pixel and is read optically. The data obtained by scanning is converted into an...
5345514 Method for inspecting components having complex geometric shapes  
A method for inspecting a component of a gas turbine engine or the like having a plurality of similarly shaped structural portions, such as the gear teeth of a gear, the dovetail slots of a turbine...
5321764 Identification of wheat cultivars by visual imaging  
A method for identifying wheat cultivars is provided which employs an imaging device such as a video camera and a computer to acquire and process images of grain samples and to identify the...
5317645 Method and apparatus for the recognition and counting of discrete objects  
An apparatus for counting discrete objects of various sizes and shapes as they travel through the apparatus in a disorderly flow. The apparatus includes a sensor array which comprises a plurality...
5285505 Method and apparatus for improving prototypes of similar characters in on-line handwriting recognition  
A method, and apparatus for accomplishing same, of providing character prototypes for use by a handwriting character recognition system 10. A first method includes a first step of providing a first...
5280433 Shape adaptive process apparatus  
Apparatus for applying a product to a plurality of workpieces having a variety of sizes and shapes. An imager captures an image of each workpiece and develops image signals which a systems...
5265173 Rectilinear object image matcher  
A process for extracting the precise perimeter of buildings from down-looking terrain images. The process works for any rectilinear building shape, and no restrictions are placed on the orientation...
5255354 Comparison of image shapes based on near neighbor data  
Shapes are compared by obtaining a measure of dissimilarity based on near neighbor data. First, an image of one shape is analyzed to obtain, for each pixel position, a distance to the nearest pixel...
5189711 Automatic detection of elliptical shapes  
A method is described for automatic detection of a large class of industrial parts, whch is faster and more reliable than current methods. Many industrial parts have visible outlines which are...
5184732 Shape sorting  
In order to provide an accurate sort into many different classes, objects are dropped through a viewing zone and viewed in the same instant by a number of viewers. Each viewer provides electronic...
5168531 Real-time recognition of pointing information from video  
An occurrence of a predefined object in an image is recognized by receiving image data, convolving the image data with a set of predefined functions to analyze the image data into occurrences of...
5164996 Optical character recognition by detecting geo features  
An alphanumeric character is recognized by optically scanning that character, detecting the occurrence of predetermined geographical features in the scanned image, comparing the detected...
5151950 Method for recognizing handwritten characters using shape and context analysis  
An improved pattern recognition system, using an improved method for merging low-level recognition information with auxiliary contextual information such as a Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA)....
5146509 Method of inspecting defects in circuit pattern and system for carrying out the method  
A circuit pattern to be inspected is imaged so that an image signal representing the circuit pattern to be inspected is produced. The image signal of the circuit pattern is compared with a...
5144683 Character recognition equipment  
The present invention relates to a character recognition equipment which is capable of recognizing with high accuracy those characters that have poor contrast and produce variation in printing...
5142592 Method and apparatus for detection of parallel edges in image processing  
A method and apparatus for detection of parallel edges in image processing systems is shown. A video source producing an image which is operated upon by Laplacian of Gaussian operator to produce an...
5136659 Intelligent coding system for picture signal  
An intelligent coding system for a picture signal is disclosed, in which a feature picture representing features of a picture is produced on the basis of an input picture signal, information of the...
5121442 Figure input system  
A figure input system includes an input device such as a digitizer through which coordinate data of points on a figure to be inputted are time-wise continuously received. These data are sampled...
5115476 Edge finding method and apparatus  
In an edge finding method and apparatus, from image signal components representing picture elements belonging to a predetermined region in a radiation image of an object, which predetermined region...
5113451 Method for labelling polygons  
A method for labelling polygons of a geometric layout which includes the steps of scanning a geometric layout during a first scan line pass to detect objects which form a polygon, processing the...
5113453 Character recognition method and apparatus  
An image system (SPI) provides an image file which is recorded in a memory (3). A segmentation and framing module (M1) isolates each of the characters in the image file within individual matrices....
5111516 Apparatus for visual recognition  
A basic image of objects is extracted from a two-dimensional image of objects. Geometrical elements of the objects are extracted from the extracted basic image. The objects to be recognized are...
5097329 Process for judging a runway  
A process for judging a runway on a two-dimensional image display presenting image information obtained by taking a picture of the runway. The process comprises, a first step of setting a first...
5091966 Adaptive scaling for decoding spatially periodic self-clocking glyph shape codes  
Weighted and unweighted convolution filtering processes are provided for decoding bitmap image space representations of self-clocking glyph shape codes and for tracking the number and locations of...
5059796 Infrared monitoring system  
An infrared monitoring system includes a histogram calculation circuit which detects an alarm area having a plurality of pixels more than a threshold number of pixels and having a temperature...
5048093 Defect counting method and apparatus  
In a defect counting method and apparatus, a projection or a corner of a defect area is successively identified from a pixel and pixels close to the pixel, especially, from four pixel groups. The...
5040231 Vertical vector pattern recognition algorithm  
A method of identifying an object from a digitized image is disclosed. The method is particularly applicable to the classification of ships. The digitized image of an unknown ship is represented as...
5031226 Arrangement for determining contrasting objects in a picture  
This arrangement comprises at least a processing block (2) provided with mean value calculating members for calculating for each picture element different mean background values (16, 18, 20), a...
5019976 Method and system for retrieving text associated with a reference image correspondence to a selected patient image  
A method of comparing a newly acquired working image with a previously acquired reference image and a system for comparing a newly acquired working image with a previously acquired reference image....
5018211 System for detecting and analyzing rounded objects  
A system is described which determines the characteristics of a substantially rounded feature, such as via hole in a printed circuit board. The system includes an image scanner for providing a...
5007098 Vectorizing method  
A vectorizing method generates an original train of codes for specifying boundary pixels. A revised train of codes is generated solely from the original codes. The revised train may includes points...
4989258 Character recognition apparatus  
This invention enables easy and fast selection of candidates for an inputted character image among the character categories by search of a tree-structured dictionary. Each ordinary node of the tree...
4987603 Recognition method for letter patterns  
A letter pattern recognition method preprocesses each character pattern to effect characteristic extraction based on elements such as a loop, a straight line and an arc and is adapted to compare...
4981372 Component shape recognition method  
A boundary of leads of an integrated circuit component shown by binary picture elements on a recognition plane of an image display means is detected by a conventional boundary detecting method, and...
4982438 Apparatus and method for recognizing three-dimensional shape of object  
A three-dimensional shape of an object is recognized by developing enveloping surfaces of the object by a cone-silhouetting method, wherein the object is picked up by a binocular three-dimensional...
4977603 Method and apparatus for a pattern recognition  
A method and an apparatus for pattern recognition utilizing the multiple similarity method, capable of taking structural features of a pattern to be recognized into account, so that sufficiently...
4969201 Method of recognizing a circular arc segment for an image processing apparatus  
A method of recognizing an arcuate or circular arc segment is used with an image processing apparatus. In a first step, two arbitray image structuring points are selected as segmenting end points...
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