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7610193 Document based character ambiguity resolution  
Methods and apparatus for document based ambiguous character resolution. An application searches a document for words that do not contain ambiguous characters and adds them to a dictionary, then...
7606419 Translated document image production device, recording medium and translated document image production method  
A translated document image production device has an extraction section, a translation section and a region backfill section. The extraction section extracts a group of pixels to be processed, the...
7599828 Grammatically correct contraction spelling suggestions for french  
A method and product are provided that identify properly spelled words from an input string. Separate lexical entries are identified for different parts of an input word. Grammatical information...
7599580 Capturing text from rendered documents using supplemental information  
A system for processing a text capture operation is described. The system receives text captured from a rendered document in the text capture operation. The system also receives supplemental...
7593605 Data capture from rendered documents using handheld device  
A portable device having scanning, imaging or other data-capture capability is described. In some cases, the portable device can indicate to the user when enough information has been captured to...
7587308 Word recognition using ontologies  
Systems, and associated apparatus, methods, or computer program products, may use ontologies to provide improved word recognition. The ontologies may be applied in word recognition processes to...
7583205 Handheld electronic device with disambiguation of compound word text input  
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound word text input. The device provides output in...
7573615 Multi-function image forming apparatus with improved scan-to-email function  
In a multi-function image forming apparatus connected with a network, an email transmission device extracts image data of an address area, a subject area, and a body area of an original document...
7573404 Handheld electronic device with disambiguation of compound word text input employing separating input  
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound word text input. The device provides output in...
7570842 OCR apparatus and OCR result verification method  
An OCR apparatus includes an operation unit configured to receive an input operation such as specification of an area to be verified, a display unit configured to visually present information, a...
7570814 Data processing device, data processing method, and electronic device  
The cellular phone is provided with a storing unit including: a first storing unit for storing special character data, which includes at least one of pictogram data representing an expression and...
7570811 Segmenting an image via a graph  
A method is described for segmenting an image of pixels into a number of fields. A graph is constructed for representing the image. First, separating elements are constructed that are oblong areas...
7561740 Systems and methods for automatic graphical sequence completion  
A possible portion providing method involving receiving a pattern provided using a movable member, the pattern corresponding to a traveling path of the movable member, and the provided pattern...
7548652 Rapid comparison of similar data strings  
A comparison routine for comparing two data strings includes pre-processing, copying letters and digits into local buffers, comparing the contents of the local buffers using a left-to-right,...
7539326 Method for verifying an intended address by OCR percentage address matching  
An OCR percentage matching algorithm achieves a significant reduction in false mismatches accounting for combinations of unprocessed spaces, missing characters, extra characters and character...
7532758 Method and apparatus for generating handwriting recognition template  
A method and apparatus for generating a template for use in handwriting recognition are provided. In the method and apparatus text is obtained, character strings in the text are identified, each...
7522771 Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for fast neighborhood determinations in dynamic environments  
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for ascertaining neighborhood information in a dynamically changing environment, such as an electronic ink environment may include: (a) receiving data...
7515751 Method and system for searching for words and phrases in active and stored ink word documents  
In a computing device, a method and system for searching for matching ink words or phrases, by comparing a given search term of at least one word (and possibly alternates) with the words in a...
7512275 Image collating apparatus, image collating method, image collating program and computer readable recording medium recording image collating program  
When first and second images are input, a partial image feature calculating unit calculates feature values of partial images of the two images. A maximum matching score position searching unit...
7505180 Optical character recognition using digital information from encoded text embedded in the document  
A method for performing optical character recognition (OCR) on an image of a document including text includes embedding a physical manifestation of digital information associated with the text on...
7499588 Low resolution OCR for camera acquired documents  
A global optimization framework for optical character recognition (OCR) of low-resolution photographed documents that combines a binarization-type process, segmentation, and recognition into a...
7496233 Service processing apparatus and service processing method  
A user defines a job flow of desired service cooperation according to a GUI screen displayed on a client terminal where parallel processing of plural parallel-executable jobs can be set. According...
7487461 System and method for issuing commands based on pen motions on a graphical keyboard  
A command pattern recognition system based on a virtual keyboard layout combines pattern recognition with a virtual, graphical, or on-screen keyboard to provide a command control method with...
7457464 Rendering of substitute for detected indicia  
A digital image is composed at a digital transmitter device from a hardcopy source. The digital image includes an optically scanned image. Indicia is detected on the hardcopy image. A substitute is...
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...
7446817 Method and apparatus for detecting text associated with video  
A method and apparatus for detecting text associated with video are provided. The method of detecting the text of the video includes reading a t-th frame (where t is a positive integer) among...
7444021 Character string identification  
The present invention provides a method of identifying a string formed from a number of hand-written characters, such as hand-written words. In order to achieve this, the method operates to...
7443316 Entering a character into an electronic device  
A method ( 300 ) for entering a character into an electronic device ( 100 ) is provided. The method ( 300 ) includes displaying ( 301 ) input character keys ( 204 ) on a touch sensitive region (...
7437001 Method and device for recognition of a handwritten pattern  
A method for recognition of a handwritten pattern comprises the steps of forming ( 4 ) a representation of the handwritten pattern, forming ( 6 ) at least two subconfigurations by dividing the...
7420701 Systems and methods for providing automatic language switching  
Systems and methods for accurately recognizing a language format of an input imaging data stream when no explicit language switch is present. A sniffer process is initiated when an imaging device...
7418442 Ink alternates and plain text search  
Providing the ability to search a document for content recorded as both ink characters and text characters. A character from a search query word is retrieved. A program retrieves the character in...
7415137 Image processing method, apparatus and storage medium  
A method of processing an image includes steps of identifying one candidate for a human face region within an image; calculating a probability that the candidate for human face region represents a...
7406201 Correcting segmentation errors in OCR  
A method for encoding characters includes identifying one or more sequences of the character codes that are likely to be generated due a segmentation error in application of a pattern recognition...
7403656 Method and apparatus for recognition of character string in scene image  
A character recognition method that is robust under an unknown illumination condition is provided. An apparatus for realizing such robust character recognition includes plural different...
7391527 Method and system of using a multifunction printer to identify pages having a text string  
A method is directed to using a multifunction printer to identify pages of a printed document that have a specified text string. The method comprises electronically converting, with the...
7391419 Information distribution system  
An information distribution system configured to deliver various types of content provided by an information distributor to information receivers through a network and transmitting the content to...
7379603 Rollup functions and methods  
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...
7379596 System and method for personalization of handwriting recognition  
An improved system and method for personalizing recognition of an input method is provided. A trainable handwriting recognizer may be personalized by using ink written by the user and text authored...
7369704 Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method  
In a circumstance where an image processing apparatus is connected to and capable of communicating with a plurality of processing servers each performing a specific data processing service, what...
7362902 Resolving character data boundaries  
Character data for a plurality of characters on which character recognition is being performed is received for processing. The character data includes character assignments and character locations....
7356188 Recognizer of text-based work  
Described herein is a technology for recognizing the content of text documents. The technology determines one or more hash values for the content of a text document. Alternatively, the technology...
7305435 Internet access via smartphone camera  
A mobile device, system, method, and software for communicating with the internet utilizing a written universal resource locator (URL). A camera unit is used to receive a raw visual light image...
7302343 Compact text encoding of latitude/longitude coordinates  
Methods are disclosed for encoding latitude/longitude coordinates within a URL in a relatively compact form. The method includes converting latitude and longitude coordinates from floating-point...
7289668 Document image decoding systems and methods using modified stack algorithm  
Methods and systems for document image decoding incorporating a Stack algorithm improve document image decoding. The application of the Stack algorithm is iterated to improved decoding. A...
7283126 System and method for providing gesture suggestions to enhance interpretation of user input  
A touch system comprises a touch panel having a touch surface and a projector presenting images onto the touch surface. A computer executing an applications program is coupled to the touch panel...
7251367 System and method for recognizing word patterns based on a virtual keyboard layout  
A system augments stylus keyboarding with shorthand gesturing. The system defines a shorthand symbol for each word according to its movement pattern on an optimized stylus keyboard. The system...
7240062 System and method for creating a searchable word index of a scanned document including multiple interpretations of a word at a given document location  
Multiple recognition engines ( 110 ) provide different interpretations ( 116 ) of a word at a given location within a scanned document ( 108 ). A word node corresponding to each unique...
7221800 Document rendering with substituted matching text  
Text that is adjacent to predetermined indicia is detected in a digital image. Alternatively, or in addition, a digital image can have text that is adjacent to a predefined insertion field. Text...
7219310 Instruction generating system and process via symbolic representations  
Glyph instructions are formed which are understandable by a person following the instructions, irrespective of which written language is understood by the person. The glyph instructions follow...
7200271 Method, computer program product, and system for performing automated text recognition and text search within a graphic file  
In accordance with this invention, a method, computer program product, and system for performing automated recognition of blocks of text within a graphic file are provided. The method, computer...
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