Character reading method and apparatus effective for condition where a plurality of characters have close relationship with one another
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for character reading. This method according to the present invention utilizes not only information associated with pixels located at an edge ... Read More
Inventors: Nishida, Hirobumi;, Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
Method of sorting out candidate characters in character recognition system
Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a method of sorting out candidate characters in a character recogn... Read More
Inventors: Choi, Jae G.;, Assignee: Goldstar Co., Ltd. (Seoul, KR) |
Information input/output control device and method therefor
The present invention is made to overcome the forgoing problems. Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide an information input/output control device and a method for controlling ... Read More
Inventors: Sugiyama, Mitsumasa; Sugiura, Susumu; Yokomizo, Yoshikazu; Mita, Yoshinobu; Takaoka, Makoto; Kobayashi, Shigetada; Shishizuka, Junichi; Negishi, Tsutomu; Yamada, Osamu; Toda, Yukari; Saito, Kazuhiro; Toda, Masanari; Hashimoto, Yasuhiko; Fukuda, Yasuo;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Method and apparatus for imbedding a watermark into a bitstream representation of a digital image sequence
The disadvantages associated with the prior art are overcome by the present invention of a method and apparatus that inserts watermark information directly into an encoded video bitstream. The inventi... Read More
Inventors: Florencio, Dinei A.; Isnardi, Michael A.;, Assignee: Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, NJ) |
Detection of image correspondence using radial cumulative similarity
In accordance with the present invention, the foregoing objective is achieved by defining an image transform, which characterizes the local structure of an image in a manner that is insensitive to poi... Read More
Inventors: Darrell, Trevor; Covell, Michele M.;, Assignee: Interval Research Corporation (Palo Alto, CA) |
Multidimensional multi-valued color image compression and decompression method
With these problems in mind, therefore, it is the object of the present invention to provide a multidimensional multi-valued image compression and decompression method, which can solve the various pro... Read More
Inventors: Hozumi, Yoshiko;, Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (Yokohama, JP) |
Method and apparatus for analyzing character strings
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for positively identifying a correct character string from an original uncorrected character string. It is also an objective of the present in... Read More
Inventors: Geist, Jon C.;, Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, DC) |
Shape adaptive technique for image and video compression
Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a block diagram of an apparatus which can be used in practicing embodiments of the invention for encoding and decoding images 100. A scanner or a video camera 102,... Read More
Inventors: Li, Weiping; Li, Shipeng;, Assignee: Competitive Technologies of PA, Inc. (Bethlehem, PA) |
Imaging coding device
To this end, an object of the present invention is to provide an image coding device capable of synchronous coding in real time with the input of a target picture-element to be coded. Another object o... Read More
Inventors: Ando, Tsutomu;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Method of compressing image data having a uniform background tint
I claim as my invention: 1. A method of compressing image data having a background tint, comprising the steps of: retrieving greyscale image data containing stroke based symbols from a data source to ... Read More
Inventors: Melen, Roger D.;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Content-based filing and retrieval system for name cards and hankos
An improved filing and retrieval system is provided by virtue of the present invention. In one embodiment, documents associated with a name card or hanko are scanned for electronic storage, the name c... Read More
Inventors: Kanoh, Toshio; Hull, Jonathan J.;, Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd. (Tokyo, JP); Ricoh Corporation (Caldwell, NJ) |
System and method for manipulating regions in a scanned image
The invention provides a system and method for manipulating the regions of a scanned image. The invention allows a user of a scanner to, in real time, alter or modify the contents of each scanned regi... Read More
Inventors: Simske, Steven J.; Lee, Jeffrey P.;, Assignee: Hewlett Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
Method and apparatus for identifying characteristics of an object in a field of view
In the method of the present invention, the identification of the characteristics of an object in a field of view is disclosed. An electrical image of the field of view is formed in a device. The elec... Read More
Inventors: Kasdan, Harvey L.;, Assignee: International Remote Imaging Systems, Inc. (Chatsworth, CA) |
Method for the estimation of rotation between two frames via epipolar search for use in a three-dimensional representation
OF THE INVENTION Before discussing in detail the practice of the invention, it will be helpful to provide some background in epipolar geometry with the aid of FIG. 1. To this end we begin with a brie... Read More
Inventors: Cox, Ingemar J.; Roy, Sebastien;, Assignee: NEC Research Institute, Inc. (Princeton, NJ) |
Method and apparatus for generating a variable data file to be used to generate custom printed articles
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS It should be understood that the embodiments presented below are only examples of the many advantageous uses of the innovative teachings herein. In general, statements ma... Read More
Inventors: Albright, Jason R.; Dwyer, Carol L.; Manning, Kyle P.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Image analyzing method for detecting significant changes in a time sequence of images
1. A method for analyzing a time sequence of images comprising: dividing a reference image based on its visual content into: (a) first spatially fixed areas of each image in said time sequence of imag... Read More
Inventors: Lefler, Kenneth A.; Kilmer, Wayne L.; Zhang, Yi;, Assignee: ABB Inc. (Norwalk, CT) |
Laser beam shaping system
In view of such problems of the prior art, a primary object of the present invention is to provide a laser beam shaping system which allows a highly laterally elongated laser beam to be converted into... Read More
Inventors: Izawa, Takao;, Assignee: Showa Optronic Co., Ltd. (JP) |
Mask with magnesium diaphragm for X-ray lithography
OF THE INVENTION A method of manufacturing the mask according to the invention is characterized in that a magnesium layer is applied to an auxiliary carrier, which either is left in the mask structur... Read More
Inventors: Lentfer, Arno; Luthje, Holger;, Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation (New York, NY) |
Method and apparatus for image enhancement using intensity dependent spread filtering
The present invention addresses these problems through the provision of a method, and an apparatus employing the method, that will both smooth and thin the image data prior to, for example, its reprod... Read More
Inventors: Vaezi, Mehrzad R.;, Assignee: Canon Information Systems, Inc. (Costa Mesa, CA) |
Method and apparatus for separating static and dynamic portions of document images
The present invention provides a method for segmenting and compressing electronic images of documents, such as checks and other financial instruments. In accordance with one aspect of the present inve... Read More
Inventors: Graf, Hans P.; Mayer, Daniel J.;, Assignee: NCR Corporation (Dayton, OH) |
Method and apparatus for processing a document
In view of the above, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for processing a document that has a shorter processing time compared to that of conventional apparatus... Read More
Inventors: Ikeda, Hiroaki;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Method for performing image-acquisition with preview of image to be transferred
Summarily described, the invention embraces an improved image-acquisition apparatus of the type having a transparent platen with an inner surface and outer surface, where a workpiece having graphic ma... Read More
Inventors: Arney, Susanne; Kleiman, Rafael N.; Moskowitz, Jacqueline J.;, Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
TV picture motion vector measurement by correlation of pictures
I claim: 1. A machine method of TV picture motion measurement, comprising a first step of correlating first and second pictures to determine correlation as a function of selective displacement, thereb... Read More
Inventors: Thomas, Graham A.;, Assignee: British Broadcasting Corporation (London, GB2) |
Fuzzy neuron for patter recognition
It is a First object of the present invention to make recognition of a more complicated pattern possible. A second object of the present invention is to enable more extensive objects to be recognized.... Read More
Inventors: Shigeoka, Fumiaki; Oh, Masanari;, Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd. (Kyoto, JP) |
Comparison inequality function based method for accelerated OCR correlation
I claim as my invention: 1. A computer-implemented method of accelerating the classification of an unclassified input symbol S into a library of pre-classified templates, said method comprising the st... Read More
Inventors: Avi-Itzhak, Hadar;, Assignee: Canon Inc. (Tokyo, JP) |
Software-based procedure and apparatus for enhancement of a gray level image
OF THE INVENTION Referring to FIG. 1, laser printer 10 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 12, a print engine 14 and a bus 16 which connects the various modules within printer 10. Printer 10 rec... Read More
Inventors: Smith, Marcus A.; Trask, Jeffrey L.;, Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) |
Method for detecting an image edge within a dithered image
The present invention is directed to the above need. A method in accordance with the present invention includes the steps of selecting a pixel within a support region for processing, computing the dif... Read More
Inventors: Cheung, Shiufun; Ulichney, Robert A.; MacNamara, Robert; Iyengar, Giridharan;, Assignee: Compaq Computer Corporation (Houston, TX) |
Image forming apparatus and method
In order attain the foregoing objects, the present invention provides an image forming apparatus for obtaining an image on recording paper by forming a latent image of image data, which has been enter... Read More
Inventors: Seto, Kaoru; Kashihara, Atsushi; Kawana, Takashi; Takebayashi, Manabu;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Image processing method and apparatus
The present invention has been made to eliminate the drawbacks of the above conventional technique, and has as its object to provide an image processing method and apparatus which can obtain a high-qu... Read More
Inventors: Ono, Takashi;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Fast pattern searching
A fast projection profile construction method receives an input image and performs an accumulation transformation of that input image to produce an accumulation transformed image. The accumulation tra... Read More
Inventors: Lee, Shih-Jong J.; Oh, Seho; Kim, Donglok;, Assignee: |
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