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5649023 Method and apparatus for indexing a plurality of handwritten objects  
A method for indexing a plurality of handwritten objects is provided. A B-tree data structure of order m is generated, where m is an integer. The B-tree has a plurality of nodes divided into a...
5581634 Recognition system with an automated development tool  
A recognition system that includes a development subsystem and production subsystem is disclosed. The development subsystem includes a user interface that enables a developer to describe the...
5528701 Trie based method for indexing handwritten databases  
A method is disclosed for matching input data representing a continuous combination of input objects to a plurality of objects in a trie database structure. This data structure has a plurality of...
5524065 Method and apparatus for pattern recognition  
Pattern recognition system which provides an indication of the confidence with which a candidate is selected for an unknown pattern. The pattern recognition apparatus includes an image data input...
5524066 Text recognition by predictive composed shapes  
A top-down technique for character text recognition of an image comprises a left-to-right analysis of each image line. A current image portion is selected. Possible text prefixes are selected from...
5497432 Character reading method and apparatus effective for condition where a plurality of characters have close relationship with one another  
A dividing step (a) divides into segments at least one character line forming input characters to be read. A partial-figure forming step (b) forms partial figures by combining segments from among...
5468069 Single chip design for fast image compression  
Video data compression techniques reduce necessary storage size and communication channel bandwidth while maintaining acceptable fidelity. Vector quantization provides better overall data...
5463773 Building of a document classification tree by recursive optimization of keyword selection function  
A document classifying system is formed by a document data classifying system, a document classifying function building system, a sample data storage apparatus and a keyword storage apparatus. The...
5422964 Method and device for spatial filtering of digital images decoded by transformation of block  
Coding and decoding of digital images by transformation of pixel blocks reduce the data bit rate. Transformation of blocks leads to discontinuities in brightness level for pixels bordering on block...
5418864 Method for identifying and resolving erroneous characters output by an optical character recognition system  
A post-processing method for an optical character recognition (OCR) method for combining different OCR engines to identify and resolve characters and attributes of the characters that are...
5394484 Image recognition apparatus  
Character recognition apparatus capable of automatically modifying its recognition tree is disclosed. When a character is erroneously recognized, its image is used to select a leaf node of the...
5373456 Expert system for assessing accuracy of models of physical phenomena and for selecting alternate models in the presence of noise  
A system for providing an iterative method of assessing accuracy of selec models of physical phenomena and for determining selection of alternate models in response to a data sequence in the...
5329594 Recognizing and judging apparatus  
A recognizing and judging apparatus has a network organized in a multilayered hierarchical manner and a plurality of branched tree structures corresponding to the number of inputted data. The...
5329596 Automatic clustering method  
An automatic pattern recognition method has a short processing time, can be applied to nonlinear separation problems, and can perform similarity calculations. The method: Divides a plurality of...
5321773 Image recognition method using finite state networks  
An image recognition system, in particular for document image recognition, using an imaging model employing a 2-dimensional finite state automaton corresponding to a regular string grammar. This...
5280547 Dense aggregative hierarhical techniques for data analysis  
A body of data is operated upon hierarchically in such a way that, at one or more levels of the hierarchy, the number of aggregative data items produced is not substantially less than the number...
5272765 System for processing character images  
A system for processing character provides assumed reference lines extending along the direction of a character image string. The distances between the portions of character images and the...
5267328 Method for selecting distinctive pattern information from a pixel generated image  
This invention describes methods and apparatus for the radial extraction and pattern recognition of image information based on "back scatter" produced by focused beam of energy such as those used...
5263124 Method for producing a binary tree, pattern recognition and binary vector classification method using binary trees, and system for classifying binary vectors  
A binary tree and method of producing a binary tree are shown, together with artificial neural networks which include processing units of binary trees. The binary tree-producing method includes...
5218646 Classification procedure implemented in a hierarchical neural network, and hierarchical neural network  
Classification procedure implemented in a tree-like neural network which, in the course of learning steps, determines with the aid of a tree-like structure the number of neurons and their synaptic...
5170440 Perceptual grouping by multiple hypothesis probabilistic data association  
Computer vision algorithms for detecting contours or localized regions of prescribed intensity distributions in an image scene utilizing multiple hypothesis probabilistic data association...
5159647 Fast and efficient search method for graphical data  
By processing the highest-resolution graphical data (e.g., image data) pertaining to relevant-objects defined by the graphical data into abstracted multiple-attribute information that is stored in...
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)....
5140644 Character string retrieving system and method  
A compact character string retrieving system capable of producing correctly the result of matching without omission even upon occurrence of multiple matching in which a plurality of search terms...
5133023 Means for resolving ambiguities in text based upon character context  
A method of identifying an object within a set of object candidates includes the steps of: calculating the probability of occurrence of each member of a set of string candidates, wherein each...
5123057 Model based pattern recognition  
A matching machine is provided for use in model-based entity recognition systems. Input to the matching machine includes a detected data event separated into portions and a set of predefined...
5119441 Optical character recognition apparatus and method using masks operation  
An optical character recognition apparatus and method as a mask operation in conjunction with a decision tree process to provide fast recognition of multi-font alphanumeric characters on a document.
5119438 Recognizing apparatus  
A recognizing apparatus is provided for recognizing a class to which an inputted characteristic pattern belongs from among a plurality of classes to be discriminated using a neural network. The...
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...
5093869 Pattern recognition apparatus utilizing area linking and region growth techniques  
Image data is processed by a low level feature detection processor that extracts low level features from an image. This is accomplished by converting a matrix of image data into a matrix of...
5077809 Optical character recognition  
A technique for optical recognition of a designated character, which forms alternating dark and light bands from an analysis of as many as seven sub-regions of the character. Only the...
5067166 Method and apparatus for DP matching using multiple templates  
A pattern recognition method and apparatus using dynamic programming in which an input sequence of labels is matched to a set of candidate templates (candidate reference label sequences). The set...
5067165 Character recognition method  
A method for recognizing a character string made of alphanumeric characters comprises processes of providing a dictionary storing each alphanumeric character in a form of a graph including nodes...
5063603 Dynamic method for recognizing objects and image processing system therefor  
A time series of successive relatively high-resolution frames of image data, any frame of which may or may not include a graphical representation of one or more predetermined specific members...
5058184 Hierachical information processing system  
Plural efferent signal paths paired with plural conventional afferent signal paths respectively are provided between lower order cell-layers and higher order cell-layers of a neural network model....
5048100 Self organizing neural network method and system for general classification of patterns  
A neural network system and method that can adaptively recognize each of many pattern configurations from a set. The system learns and maintains accurate associations between signal pattern...
5029223 Constraint driven-on line recognition of handwritten characters and symbols  
Method and apparatus for identifying a valid symbol or a string of valid symbols from a sequence of handwritten strokes. A method includes the steps of (a) generating in response to one or more...
5020112 Image recognition method using two-dimensional stochastic grammars  
A method of automatically identifying bitmapped image objects. Each of a set of templates in an object template library is compared with all areas of like size of a bitmapped image. A set of...
5018219 Object recognize apparatus  
An object recognize apparatus suitable for recognition of a complex object constituted with a plurality of elements. When specifying a recognition object, a plurality of elements constituting the...
5010579 Hand-written, on-line character recognition apparatus and method  
A hand-written, on-line character recognition apparatus, and the method employed by it, in which the structure of a dictionary for recognition is formed as a sub-routine type, whereby the...
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...
4949388 Method and apparatus for recognition of graphic symbols  
A technique for recognizing hand-drawn graphic symbols operates on vectorized graphic data, including lines, arcs, and circles, that have been produced by an automatic drawing recognition system....
4944023 Method of describing image information  
A method of describing an image made up of a plurality of kinds of regions in an n-dimensional space by a tree structure, comprises the steps of recursively and equally dividing the image into 2 n ...
4852173 Design and construction of a binary-tree system for language modelling  
In order to determine a next event based upon available data, a binary decision tree is constructed having true or false questions at each node and a probability distribution of the unknown next...
4850025 Character recognition system  
A character recognition system extracts character blocks to contain a minimum character unit therein. The character recognition system has the capability of re-combining and/or re-extracting...
4845765 Process for the automatic recognition of objects liable to overlap  
The invention relates to a process for the recognition of objects liable to overlap, on the basis of reference images of said objects and the image of the group of said objects. The process...
4831657 Method and apparatus for establishing pixel color probabilities for use in OCR logic  
A method of creating a decision tree to enable a character recognition device to recognize characters in a new unknown font includes scanning a document printed in the unknown font to generate an...
4799270 Image classifier  
A hierarchical and recursive system for classifying, identifying, describing and analyzing images and the related apparatus are disclosed wherein a digital image is partitioned into subarrays, the...
4783841 Data compression  
The present invention enables compression of digitized pictorial data to be achieved by comparing a data block of a predetermined size with a group of patterns relevant to that size held in a...
4731856 Automatic assembly apparatus  
In automatic assembly apparatus operating under electronic vision control, features on components to be assembled must be recognized and located in position and orientation so that a gripper...
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