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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...
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...
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...
7451317 Apparatus for and method of embedding watermark into original information, transmitting watermarked information, and reconstructing the watermark  
An apparatus for and method of embedding a watermark into original information, transmitting the watermarked information, and reconstructing the watermark from the transmitted watermarked...
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 (...
7218249 Hand-held communication device having navigation key-based predictive text entry  
A hand-held communication device provides navigation key-based predictive text entry. The hand-held communication device includes a housing generally sized to be held in a human hand having a...
7046847 Document processing method, system and medium  
A technique for extracting a meaningful text block from a document where a table, an itemized list, a multiple column, etc., are arbitrarily laid out. A document is input which is laid out using...
7020338 Method of identifying script of line of text  
A method of identifying the script of a line of text by first assigning a weight to each n-gram in a group of documents of known scripts, where each n-gram is a sequence of numbers representing...
6934405 Address reading method  
An address reading method with processing steps controlled by parameters, in which free parameters which cannot be adapted by learning samples are to be automatically optimized. These parameters...
6646572 Method for designing optimal single pointer predictive keyboards and apparatus therefore  
Keys are arranged on a keyboard as learned during a training stage. During training, a training corpus of input symbol sequence is provided. Each unique symbol in the corpus has an associated key...
6636636 Character recognizing apparatus, method, and storage medium  
It is an object of the invention to improve output precision of a final recognition result by further obtaining and applying a forward-chain probability in addition to a backward-chain probability...
6560360 Feed forward feed back multiple neural network with context driven recognition  
A recognition system is disclosed, including a representation of an object in terms of its constituent parts that is translationally invariant, and which provides scale invariant recognition. The...
6292772 Method for identifying the language of individual words  
The method of recognizing the language of a single word as to spelling and grammar correction (e.g., identifying the appropriate language resources on a document, paragraph, sentence or even...
6175829 Method and apparatus for facilitating query reformulation  
A method and apparatus for verifying a query to provide feedback to users for query reformulation. By utilizing selectivity statistics for semantic and visual characteristics of image objects,...
6137911 Test classification system and method  
Documents are classified into one or more clusters corresponding to predefined classification categories by building a knowledge base comprising matrices of vectors which indicate the significance...
5963671 Enhancement of soft keyboard operations using trigram prediction  
The most likely to be used characters and controls of a soft keyboard are determined from consulting trigram tables, and enhanced and/or positioned to attract the user and to facilitate quick...
5930783 Semantic and cognition based image retrieval  
A computer implemented method for searching and retrieving images contained within a database of images in which both semantic and cognitive methodologies are utilized. The method accepts a...
5915039 Method and means for extracting fixed-pitch characters on noisy images with complex background prior to character recognition  
Fixed-pitch, fixed-font characters embedded in a noisy gray-scale image of picture elements (pels) within a complex background can be extracted prior to execution of any recognition operations by...
5883986 Method and system for automatic transcription correction  
A method and system for automatically modifying an original transcription produced as the output of a recognition operation produces a second, modified transcription, such as, for example,...
5850480 OCR error correction methods and apparatus utilizing contextual comparison  
The present invention includes methods of correcting optical character recognition errors occurring during recognition of alphanumeric character strings contained within one or more predetermined...
5774588 Method and system for comparing strings with entries of a lexicon  
A system and method for more efficiently comparing an unverified string to a lexicon, which filters the lexicon through multiple steps to reduce the number of entries to be directly compared with...
5724449 Stroke syntax input device  
A pointing device-driven interface apparatus and method for enabling a user to enter data (in the form of options) into a computer system. User data files are maintained which indicate the relative...
5687254 Searching and Matching unrecognized handwriting  
A method and system provide for searching and matching gesture-based data such as handwriting without performing a recognition process on the handwritten gesture data to convert it to a standard...
5628003 Document storage and retrieval system for storing and retrieving document image and full text data  
A document storage and retrieval system is provided with means for storing a document body in the form of image, means for storing text information in the form of a character code string for...
5617488 Relaxation word recognizer  
A word recognizer system 10 has a probabilistic relaxation process that improves the performance of an image text recognition technique by propagating the influence of word collocation statistics....
5479536 Stroke syntax input device  
A pointing device-driven interface apparatus and method for enabling a user to enter data (in the form of options) into a computer system. User data files are maintained which indicate the relative...
5261009 Means for resolving ambiguities in text passed 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...
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...
5062143 Trigram-based method of language identification  
A mechanism for examining a body of text and identifying its language compares successive trigrams into which the body of text is parsed with a library of sets of trigrams. For a respective...
4058795 Method and apparatus for context-aided recognition  
A character-recognition unit or other input device provides a sequence of input characters. A questionable identification of one of the input characters is resolved by considering surrounding...
3188609 Method and apparatus for correcting errors in mutilated text  
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