| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 382200000 | Measurements made on alphanumeric characters | 10 |
| 20080273799 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus including a function of processing images is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a bitmap data obtaining unit configured to obtain bitmap data; a pixel extracting unit configured to extract, from the bitmap data obtained by the bitmap data obtaining unit, pixels on the basis of circumference of circles of a predetermined radius that would be drawn from the center of graphic pixels constituting a character or an image, and regard the pixels as extracted pixels; a pixel value giving unit configured to give a predetermined pixel value to the pixels extracted by the pixel extracting unit; and a first combining unit configured to combine the extracted pixels to which the pixel value has been given by the pixel value giving unit and the bitmap data obtained by the bitmap data obtaining unit so as to obtain bitmap data with an effect. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20100092092 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - When a halftone dot region includes a character or line drawing, high extraction performance of a halftone dot region cannot be obtained. Hence, the isolation amount of an interest pixel is calculated, and the isolation amounts are integrated in a plurality of areas having different sizes. Thresholds set for respective areas are compared with the integration result to determine whether or not the interest pixel belongs to a halftone dot region. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100202702 | SEMI-AUTOMATIC DIMENSIONING WITH IMAGER ON A PORTABLE DEVICE - A method of operating a dimensioning system to determine dimensional information for objects is disclosed. A number of images are acquired. Objects in at least one of the acquired images are computationally identified. One object represented in the at least one of the acquired images is computationally initially selected as a candidate for processing. An indication of the initially selected object is provided to a user. At least one user input indicative of an object selected for processing is received. Dimensional data for the object indicated by the received user input is computationally determined. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20110075936 | METHODS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - A computer implemented that, in various aspects, transforms a grayscale image into an OCR image by applying a combination of steps to the grayscale image is disclosed herein. The grayscale image may include one or more alphanumeric characters. The grayscale image may includes visual content displayed upon a computer screen, so that the grayscale image may have a resolution generally equivalent to a screen resolution of the computer screen prior to application of the combination of steps thereto. The resultant OCR image, in various implementations, is of sufficient resolution and quality that an OCR engine can generally recognize alphanumeric characters imbedded within the OCR image. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20120063686 | COMPRESSION OF DIGITAL IMAGES OF SCANNED DOCUMENTS - A first aspect of the invention relates to a method for creating a binary mask image from an a inputted digital image of a scanned document, comprising the steps of creating a binarized image by binarizing the inputted digital image, detecting first text regions representing light text on a dark background, and inverting the first text regions, such that the inverted first text regions are interpretable in the same way as dark text on a light background. A second aspect of the invention relates to a method for comparing in a binary image a first pixel blob with a second pixel blob to determine whether they represent matching symbols, comprising the steps of detecting a line in one blob not present in the other and/or determining if one of the blobs represents an italicized symbol where the other does not. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20130208988 | METHOD FOR MARKING GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SAID MARKING IN A GRAPHICAL ELEMENT - Method for marking graphical elements comprising the steps of selecting at least three coherent edge portions ( | 08-15-2013 |
| 20140307973 | Text Recognition Techniques - Text recognition techniques are described. In one or more implementations, image data is received via a network at a service provider. One or more image deblurring or curve correction techniques are applied to the image data, text is recognized from the deblurred image data using one or more optical character recognition techniques, and the recognized text is exposed for access via the network. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140334739 | METHODS OF CLUSTERING COMPUTATIONAL EVENT LOGS - Methods are presented suitable for clustering computational event logs ( | 11-13-2014 |
| 20160063323 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING OF IMAGES OF MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS - The current document is directed to methods and systems that convert document images containing mathematical expression into corresponding electronic documents. In one implementation, an image or sub-image containing a mathematical expression is recursively partitioned into blocks separated by white-space stripes. Horizontal and vertical partitioning are alternately and recursively applied to the image or sub-image containing a mathematical expression until the lowest-level blocks obtained by partitioning correspond to symbols recognizable by character-recognition methods. Graph-based analysis of the recognized symbols provides a basis for encoding an equivalent representation of the mathematical expression contained in the image or sub-image. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160086034 | ANALOG UTILITY METER READING - A method and apparatus to read an analog dial utility meter including a plurality of analog dials, where each dial includes a rotating dial indicator is provided. The apparatus is configured to analyze a digital image of the analog dial utility meter to determine a value of each dial of the utility meter. The method comprises receiving a digital image of the analog dial utility meter, and performing one or more processing and analysis steps to determine a meter reading of the utility meter. | 03-24-2016 |
