Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
382175000 | Separating document regions using preprinted guides or markings | 20 |
20080240564 | Fast 4D Segmentation of Large Datasets Using Graph Cuts - A method for segmenting at least a pair of regions of an image. High resolution data is obtained of the image. Each one of the pair of the regions in the image is marked. Graph cuts are used on the downsampled data to obtain first voxels along an outer boundary of a selected one of the pair of marked regions and second voxels along an inner boundary the selected region. The graphs cuts are projected to the previously obtained high-resolution image data. First and second sets of seeds are placed on the first voxels and a second set of seeds respectively. The first seeds grow into first areas extending inwardly of the selected region while simultaneously the second seeds grow into second areas extending towards the first extending areas until the first areas and the second areas meet to thereby establish the outer boundary of the selected region. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240565 | DOCUMENT GENERATING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DOCUMENT GENERATING METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The document generating apparatus is provided with: an acquiring unit that acquires information on a first operation on a display screen and information on a second operation on the display screen, the first operation being for designating a part area of an image as an area to be included in an electronic document, and the second operation being for setting a size of a medium on which the electronic document is printed; an adjusting unit that adjusts the part area of the image designated in the first operation into the medium of which size is set in the second operation; and a generating unit that generates the electronic document based on the image adjusted by the adjusting unit. | 10-02-2008 |
20090097749 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE DEFINITION OF REGIONS AND VOLUMES OF INTEREST - The definition of regions or volumes of interest and the delineation of objects of interest are important and frequently performed tasks in clinical imaging. However, today's solutions for this task are often time-consuming and cumbersome for the clinician. The present invention provides an alternative approach that is intuitive and works even for noisy images where automatic segmentation approaches usually fail. The disclosed systems and methods automatically translate mouse movements relative to an imaginary x-axis and y-axis into modifications in the threshold and scale (i.e., shape and size) of a boundary delineation, thereby permitting a system user/clinician to rapidly arrive at a desired ROI and/or VOI. | 04-16-2009 |
20090110278 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIEWING AND UTILIZING DATA FROM ELECTRONIC IMAGES - A method of utilizing data extracted from an electronic image includes receiving an electronic image associated with a subclient and receiving a plurality of data extracted from the electronic image and organized into predefined fields associated with the subclient. The method also includes displaying the electronic image in a first portion of a user interface and, in a second portion of the user interface, a field table containing the plurality of data and associated field names. | 04-30-2009 |
20090245640 | IMAGE DETERMINATION APPARATUS, IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS AND A RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH AN IMAGE SEARCH PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A preprocessing section binarizes input image data and calculates a total black pixel ratio. A feature extracting section detects connected components included in the binary image data and detects circumscribing bounding boxes of the connected components. Predetermined connected components are removed from all of the connected components based on the sizes of the detected circumscribing bounding boxes and bounding box black pixel ratios. By using the connected components that remain after removing the unnecessary connected components, a histogram is generated by specifying the sizes of the circumscribing bounding boxes as classes and numbers of the connected components as the frequencies of occurrence. A determining section determines whether the input image data is document image data or non-document image data based on information related to the generated histogram and the total black pixel ratio. | 10-01-2009 |
20100008578 | FORM RECOGNITION APPARATUS, METHOD, DATABASE GENERATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - One system to which the present invention is applied obtains the digitized form image of a form, recognizes a character string existing in the obtained form image, extracts a headline wording being a predetermined character string from the recognized character strings, determines a table structure existing in the form image, on the basis of the extracted headline wording and the arrangement of headline wordings in the form image and specifies a correspondence relationship between a headline wording and a character string other than the headline wording that is recognized, using the determination result. | 01-14-2010 |
20100034460 | Document management system and remote document management method with identification, classification, search, and save functions - The present invention provides a document management system including a webpage server, a file receiving server for receiving a document through the webpage server; an optical identification device for performing optical identification on a non-textural content in the received document; a feature mark identifier for setting up a feature mark for the document; and a database for storing the document, which can be output from the database directly or through the file receiving device. The present invention also discloses a remote document management method. The device and method of the present invention have functions of identification, classification, search, and save. | 02-11-2010 |
20100074524 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO DOCUMENT PROCESSING BASED ON A DOCUMENT TYPE - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a portion of text from a document. A document type is associated with the document based on at least one of the portion of text or an identifier associated with the document. The method also includes selecting, based on the document type, a document template having a plurality of sections. Each section from the plurality of sections being associated with a document category. At least one section from the plurality of sections including at least one policy preference. | 03-25-2010 |
20110038541 | FEATURE-BASED SIGNATURES FOR IMAGE IDENTIFICATION - A method for deriving a representation of an image is described. The method involves processing signals corresponding to the image. At least one region of the image that is representative of the image is identified. In one embodiment, each identified region corresponds to a feature of the image. For each identified image region, a two dimensional function of at least part of the image region is derived and processed to obtain an intermediate representation of the at least part of the image region. A representation of the image is derived from the intermediate representation of at least one of the image regions. | 02-17-2011 |
20110188752 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AUTOMATICALLY DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN DIFFERENT DATA TYPES - There is described a system and method for automatically discriminating between different types of data with an image reader. In brief overview of one embodiment, the automatic discrimination feature of the present image reader allows a human operator to aim a hand-held image reader at a target that can contain a dataform and actuate the image reader. An autodiscrimination module in the image reader in one embodiment analyzes image data representative of the target and determines a type of data represented in the image data. | 08-04-2011 |
20110311139 | AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION TUNER - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for automatically segmenting input document images into regions of black text, white space, and image content. A set of scanned training documents representing the range of text and images to be processed is coarsely tagged to classify regions by content type. The training images are divided into bricks, parameters describing individual brick features are evaluated, and the bricks are classified according to the parameter values. A classification map that relates parameter values to classification codes describing content type is constructed by generating linear equations separating a parameter space into parameter regions along classification boundaries. After training, input documents are scanned and divided into bricks, and brick parameters are converted into an index into the classification map, to classify document regions by content. | 12-22-2011 |
20120063684 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE FORM FILLING - Systems and methods for interactive, user-driven detection, creation and completion of form fields in a digital document are provided. A document with form fields that require completion by a user is received, after which form fields are detected at the direction of the user. Once the user selects a possible form field, the system creates the appropriate fillable form field based on size, type, location, related text and other parameters of the form field and surrounding document. Additional levels of interaction include predictive text, pattern development and automatic completion of previously completed fields. | 03-15-2012 |
20120269434 | Graphic Object Layout Templates for Arranging Images - A method for characterizing an arrangement of template regions includes identifying a first bounding box that includes one or more template regions, identifying a second bounding box of one or more template regions that are not in the first bounding box, organizing the first and second bounding boxes into a new bounding box, and designating the new bounding box as the characterized arrangement of template regions. | 10-25-2012 |
20130272610 | Image Processing Apparatus that Groups Objects Within Image - Provided is an image processing apparatus including: a grouping preference unit configured to register user preference information on a storage device based on a user operation, the user preference information indicating how objects within an image are to be classified into groups; an image analysis unit configured to detect the objects within the image; and a grouping unit configured to read the user preference information from the storage device and classify the objects detected within the image into the groups indicated in the read user preference information. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272611 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method, an image capturing apparatus, and a program which make it possible to crop an image with an optimal composition even for a subject other than a person. | 10-17-2013 |
20140286572 | Image-Processing Device Specifying Encircling Line for Identifying Sub-Region of Image - An image-processing device stores computer-readable instructions therein. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the image-processing device to perform identifying an object in a target image represented by target image data. The object includes object pixels. The processor further performs setting frame regions for the object pixels and counting an intersection number. The partial object region is positioned within frame regions and has object pixels consecutively arranged. The processor performs calculating a ratio of first object pixels to the object pixels as a first ratio. Each first object pixel is an object pixel whose intersection number is 2. The processor performs judging whether the first ratio is greater than or equal to a first reference value and determining that the object is an encircling line that encloses a part of the target image if the first ratio is greater than or equal to the first reference value. | 09-25-2014 |
20140301644 | Extracting Reading Order Text and Semantic Entities - Methods and apparatus provide for an Extractor that receives a collection of strings and a bounding box(es) for each string. Each bounding box describes a position of at least a portion of a corresponding string in a source document. The source document includes multiple sections for presenting portions of the collection of strings in the source document. The Extractor arranges the collection of strings according to a reading order that corresponds to a language associated with the collection of strings. Upon arranging the collection of strings according to the reading order, the Extractor collects semantic entities from a target document that has the collection of strings ordered according to the reading order. For each collected semantic entity, the Extractor tags the collected semantic entity with a tag that describes a category of content that corresponds to a logical section of the target document from which the semantic entity was extracted. | 10-09-2014 |
20150331886 | DETERMINING IMAGES OF ARTICLE FOR EXTRACTION - A content application determines images of an article for extraction. The content application identifies an initial image associated with a content of the article. A caption and a credit line associated with the initial image is detected and the initial image is extracted along with the caption and the credit line. A second image of the article associated with a video is also detected and extracted along with the video. In addition, the content application extracts a slideshow detected within the article. | 11-19-2015 |
20160171647 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM | 06-16-2016 |
20160171709 | INTERACTIVE IMAGE SEGMENTING APPARATUS AND METHOD | 06-16-2016 |