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Image Analysis > Pattern Recognition Pattern RecognitionPattern Recognition patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.09/27/07 - 20070223816 - Device, system and method for determining compliance with a positioning instruction by a figure in an image A device, system and method for calculating location coordinates for a figure in an image that is illuminated by visible light, comparing such location coordinates to location coordinates of a figure, and evaluating compliance by such figure to an instruction to assume a defined position. ... 09/06/07 - 20070206858 - Method and system for object recognition using fractal maps A method for recognizing an object in an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The fractal map may be segmented by thresholding and locations of candidate objects are determined. The pixel value of ... 08/30/07 - 20070201745 - Image-based captcha generation system In a system and method for the generation of attack-resistant, user-friendly, image-based CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart), controlled distortions are applied to randomly chosen images and presented to a user for annotation from a given list of words. An image is presented that contains ... 08/02/07 - 20070177800 - Method and apparatus for maintaining a background image model in a background subtraction system using accumulated motion Methods and apparatus are provided for maintaining a background image model in a background subtraction system using accumulated motion. A background image model is maintained by obtaining a map of accumulated motion; and adjusting the background image model based on the map of accumulated motion. The map of accumulated motion ... 08/02/07 - 20070177799 - Image analysis Images with closely spaced objects can be processed using a deblending procedure that includes the calculation of some moments and centroids of intensity data. Methods and apparatus for performing this processing are well-suited for use in DNA sequencing, where the locations of fluorescing nucleotides appearing in images must be compared ... 07/26/07 - 20070172124 - Modified levenshtein distance algorithm for coding Methods and systems of mapping of an optical character recognition (OCR) text string to a code included in a coding dictionary by supplementing the Levenshtein Distance Algorithm (LDA) with additional information in the form of adjustments based on particular character substitutions, insertions and deletions together with weighting based on multiple ... 07/12/07 - 20070160293 - Head detecting apparatus, head detecting method, and head detecting program A head detecting apparatus, including a foreground extraction section for extracting a foreground region in which a person is captured from an input image; a first main axis computing section which includes a first moment computing section for computing a moment around a center of gravity of the foreground region ... 07/12/07 - 20070160292 - Method of inputting chinese characters A Chinese character input method includes defining corners of a character, wherein the corners and sequence of input includes an upper left corner; an upper right corner, a lower left corner and a lower right corner, determining shapes of each of the corners of the character based on extension of ... 07/12/07 - 20070160291 - Video image type determination system, video image processing system, video image processing method and video image processing program A video image processing system, which determines a type of a video image scene and processes the video image based on a processing method corresponding to the type of the video image scene, is provided. A landmark feature variable obtaining section calculates the landmark feature variable on the basis of ... 06/28/07 - 20070147680 - Automated docketing system The present invention includes a method for docketing an action or event, such as an action or event defined in a form received from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The method includes scanning the form having written information thereon, the written information comprising a date and indicia defining ... 06/14/07 - 20070133876 - Device, method, and computer program product for enhancing the use of electronic forms in mobile devices A device, method, and computer program product enhance the use of electronic forms in mobile devices, such as by using a camera image for entering data into an input field of an electronic form. A portion of the camera image may be captured and displayed in the input field of ... 06/14/07 - 20070133875 - Pictorial identification of a communication event The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for pictorial identification of a communication event using speech or text recognition in an electronic device. The communication can be (but is not limited to) a telephone call, an electronic mail message, MMS, SMS, an instant message, etc. ... 06/14/07 - 20070133874 - Personal information retrieval using knowledge bases for optical character recognition correction In a system for updating a contacts database (42, 46), a portable imager (12) acquires a digital business card image (10). An image segmenter (16) extracts text image segments from the digital business card image. An optical character recognizer (OCR) (26) generates one or more textual content candidates for each ... 06/07/07 - 20070127817 - Change region detection device and change region detecting method A device includes a first change detection unit which detects a change region distribution based on the texture information; a second change detection unit which detects a change region distribution based on a background differential method; a texture detection unit, a change-detection-unit weighting storage unit, and a change detection result ... 06/07/07 - 20070127816 - Computer-vision system for classification and spatial localization of bounded 3d-objects The invention relates to a system and method for recognition, classification and spatial localization of bounded 3D-objects. In particular it relates to a computerized method for recognition, classification and localization of objects. The method comprises generation of a training database based on a large number of training views recorded by ... 05/31/07 - 20070122035 - System and method for estimating dynamic quantities A system and method for estimating dynamic quantities is provided. The system includes an electronic identification recognition apparatus, a weight measuring apparatus, and a computing apparatus. The electronic identification recognition apparatus can recognize an electronic identification for a corresponding item placed into the system, and the weight measuring apparatus measures ... 05/31/07 - 20070122034 - Face detection in digital images A method of detecting a face in a digital image comprises generating a map from the image, the map having a plurality of elements each corresponding to a pixel of the image, and searching the map for regions of elements corresponding to regions of pixels in the image exhibiting characteristics ... 05/24/07 - 20070116362 - Method and device for the structural analysis of a document A method for the structural analysis of a document is proposed, wherein a template is broken down into elementary structural units and, based upon these elementary structural units, generic objects are produced to which one or more properties are assigned, whereby a structure representing the template is produced in an ... 05/24/07 - 20070116361 - Device and method for creating a saliency map of an image The invention concerns a device and a method for creating a saliency map of an image. It comprises the steps of: Projection of said image according to the luminance component and if said image is a color image, according to the luminance component and according to the chrominance components, Perceptual ... 05/10/07 - 20070104369 - Characterizing dynamic regions of digital media data A media analysis tool is provided for defining dynamic regions of a digital media segment. The dynamic regions may contain at least part of a visible feature of the segment. Correlation of the defined regions with external data quantifying attention of a subject viewing the segment to locations on the ... 05/10/07 - 20070104368 - Image recognition system and image recognition program An image recognizing device for recognizing the motion of a player on the basis of a content containing a sport in which players play in zones demarcated with an obstacle such as a net, including a video information acquiring section for acquiring video information representing the motion of the player ... 05/03/07 - 20070098263 - Data entry apparatus and program therefor A command interpretation means is provided to allow any arbitrary combination of the method of specifying a character string or an area on a paper or a monitor display with a pen or a mouse, and the method of writing a character string or a symbol which means a command ... 04/19/07 - 20070086653 - Optical data storage device and method A device disclosed herein relates to a rotation invariant data storage device comprising, a data storage device with an optically sensible image, encoded data stored within the sensible image, and a plurality of radial vectors stores the encoded data. The encoded data comprises an image that has been encrypted to ... 04/05/07 - 20070076951 - Image recognition device In order to reduce the computational burden required for scanning and to enhance the recognition accuracy, an image recognition device is configured so that a scanning pattern recording unit that records a plurality of scanning patterns for directing how to scan recognition areas of predetermined size in the image data ... 03/29/07 - 20070071322 - Pattern-based encoding and detection A method and system for encoding a content signal having one or more content segments. The one or more content segments of the content signal are identifying or obtained. One or more encoded patterns are superimposed or inserted in a segment portion of at least one of the one or ... 03/29/07 - 20070071321 - Recognizing apparatus and method, recording media, and program The present invention enables a user's movement indicating his or her intention to be recognized easily and accurately. On the basis of image data taken by a camera 13, a face direction detecting section 14 senses the direction of a user's face and a line-of-sight sensing section 15 senses the ... 03/29/07 - 20070071320 - Detection method of two-dimensional code, detection device for the same, and storage medium storing detection program for the same A method for detecting a two-dimensional code in which three position detection patterns are provided in positions corresponding to respective apices of a right angled isosceles triangle, and a data region is provided in a region defined by the position detection patterns is provided. The method includes detecting plural position ... 03/22/07 - 20070065011 - Method and system for collecting data from a plurality of machine readable documents In a method and system for collection of data from documents present in machine-readable form, at least one already-processed document stored as a template and designated as a template document is associated with a document to be processed designated as a read document. Fields for data to be extracted are ... 03/15/07 - 20070058866 - Technique for bit-accurate comfort noise addition The addition of comfort noise to an image serves to hide compression artifacts. To facilitate comfort noise addition, supplemental information accompanying a video image contains at least one parameter that specifies an attribute regarding comfort noise. Typically, the supplemental information includes parameters that function to turn the comfort noise on ... 03/08/07 - 20070053590 - Image recognition apparatus and its method An image recognition method or apparatus, the method comprising: inputting an image containing an object to be recognized; creating an input subspace from the inputted image; storing a model subspace to represent three-dimensional object models respectively for different environments; projectively transforming the input subspace in a manner to suppress an ... 03/01/07 - 20070047816 - User interface for mixed media reality A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one embodiment, ... 03/01/07 - 20070047815 - Image recognition apparatus, image recognition method, and image recognition program An image recognition apparatus, includes: a reading unit that reads an image on a paper script to acquire the image data from the paper script; an additional image extraction unit that extracts an additional image added to each predetermined area of an original image from the difference extraction result by ... 01/04/07 - 20070003141 - System and method for automatic person counting and detection of specific events A system for detecting and counting individuals in a stationary or moving crowd based on a digital or digitized image captured from a single camera. Initial information is assumed based on a foot-to-head plane homology, where a geometric construct is developed to best enclose image features with a high probability ... 01/04/07 - 20070003140 - Electronic device and method for outputting response information in electronic device Input image information input through an image pickup portion (5) is compared with user's face image data or face feature data stored in a registered dictionary in anon-volatile memory (4), so as to generate response information. The registered dictionary includes partial region image data or feature data of each face ... 12/28/06 - 20060291724 - Region extraction system, region extraction method and program A region extraction system includes a temporary region extractor for temporarily extracting a to-be-extracted region from measured data with a region growing technique, an initial position determiner for determining an initial position of a standard model for the to-be-extracted region using the to-be-extracted region temporarily extracted, and a to-be-extracted region ... 12/28/06 - 20060291723 - Material processing apparatus, material processing method and material processing program An material processing apparatus: includes: an original information storage unit that stores an electronic data on a material having an answer column; an image input unit that obtain an image data from the material in which the answer column is filled with an answer and an accuracy judgment on the ... 12/21/06 - 20060285748 - Document processing device A document processing device comprises: an image capturing unit that captures an image and acquires image data; a region separating section that extracts from the image data, image data of a printed region and image data of a hand-drawn region; a printed text data acquiring section that acquires printed text ... 12/14/06 - 20060280367 - Action analysis apparatus An action analysis apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires moving image data including a series of frame image data obtained by imaging a human body, a unit that detects at least one image area in which a predetermined portion of the imaged human body is imaged in the frame ... 12/07/06 - 20060274942 - Two-dimensional code recognition processing method, two-dimensional code recognition processing apparatus, and storage medium A two-dimensional code recognition processing method for recognizing a two-dimensional code made of a plurality of square cells arranged in accordance with predetermined layout rules. The method comprises the steps of: generating binary data from image information acquired externally in accordance with a predetermined threshold value; detecting a reference cell ... 12/07/06 - 20060274941 - Method of pre-analysis of a machine-readable form image The present invention relates generally to an optical character recognition of machine-readable forms, and in particular to a verification of a direction of spatial orientation and a definition of a form type of the document electronic image. The goals of the invention are achieved by preliminarily assigning one or more ... 11/30/06 - 20060269136 - Efficient finder patterns and methods for application to 2d machine vision problems The invention relates to a finder pattern for detection and location of at least one target feature in a target object. The finder pattern includes at least two triads arranged in predetermined locations in the target object, wherein each triad includes a first blob, a second blob, and a third ... 11/30/06 - 20060269135 - System and method for identifying objects of interest in image data A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of Iterative Transformational Divergence in which objects in images, when subjected to special transformations, will exhibit radically different responses based on the physical, chemical, or numerical properties of the object or ... 11/30/06 - 20060269134 - Preprocessing for information pattern analysis Pre-processing techniques for processing an image to improve the distinctiveness of an information pattern captured in the image before the information pattern is analyzed in a decoding process. The brightness of an image first is normalized by dividing the image into blocks of areas, such as pixels. A brightness distribution ... 11/23/06 - 20060262975 - Label including identifier having specific color or shape and distribution system using the same A distribution system using labels including identifiers having specific colors or shapes is provided. A label, on which an identifier having a specific color or shape is formed at a specific position, is attached to an item for delivery. The identifier allows the item to be classified by destination according ... 11/16/06 - 20060257024 - Method and device for visualizing the surroundings of a vehicle A method and device for visualizing the surroundings of a vehicle, in particular for detecting and representing the traffic situation in front of a driver are provided. A night vision information system fuses video images from essentially the same location and time but from different spectral regions are fused using ... 11/02/06 - 20060245652 - Method for recognizing objects in an image without recording the image in its entirety An image recognition method is used to recognize objects in an image in real-time and without requiring storage of the image in an image buffer. Each object is formed from image segments. The method includes: setting a grayscale threshold value of the image; acquiring pixel values of each row sequentially ... 11/02/06 - 20060245651 - Symptom based custom protocols Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method and computer instructions for protocol selection. In an embodiment, a protocol selection system includes: an input module for inputting procedure data; a protocol selection module for selecting a protocol based on the procedure data; and an output module for outputting ... 10/26/06 - 20060239558 - Method and system to segment depth images and to detect shapes in three-dimensionally acquired data A method and system analyzes data acquired by image systems to more rapidly identify objects of interest in the data. In one embodiment, z-depth data are segmented such that neighboring image pixels having similar z-depths are given a common label. Blobs, or groups of pixels with a same label, may ... 10/26/06 - 20060239557 - Image indexer for indexing a plurality of images An image indexer for indexing a plurality of images that includes a first data structure for subsequent classification of the one or more images. The first data structure includes characteristics for at least one class. An image classifier classifies one or more individual images found in the plurality of images ... 10/12/06 - 20060228027 - Dynamically reconfigurable signal processing circuit, pattern recognition apparatus, and image processing apparatus A plurality of signal processing functions are achieved with the same arithmetic processing circuit by controlling wiring arrangements or signal modulation in accordance with a predetermined arrangement control signal that is output based on circuit arrangement information read from a circuit arrangement information storage unit. Hierarchical parallel processing is realized ... 10/12/06 - 20060228026 - Method for detecting objects in an image using pair-wise pixel discriminative features A method for detecting an object in an image includes calculating a log L likelihood of pairs of pixels at select positions in the image that are derived from training images. The calculated log L likelihood of the pairs of pixels is compared with a threshold value. The object is ... 10/12/06 - 20060228025 - Portable electronic device having a pattern identification system A portable electronic device having a pattern identification system includes a substrate, an illumination device, a video camera unit (containing a controllable camera lens), a controller, a programmable identification element and a display unit. The substrate is electrically connected to the illumination device, the video camera unit, the controller, the ... 09/14/06 - 20060204097 - Method and system for implementing n-dimensional object recognition using dynamic adaptive recognition layers In a method and a system for the implementation of multi-layered network object recognition in N-dimensional space, the structure of a neural recognition network is dynamically generated and adapted to recognize an object. The layers of the network are capable of recognizing key features of the input data by using ... 08/17/06 - 20060182343 - Digital pen calibration by local linearization X-y positions of a digital pen's tip may be determined by using a calibration parameter to map the x-y positions of the respective centers of images captured by the pen's camera. The calibration parameter may be generated by iteratively calculating estimates of the calibration parameter. The iteratively calculated estimates may ... 07/27/06 - 20060165288 - Object-of-interest image capture A method and apparatus for object-of-interest image capture accomplishes the functions of capturing (120) a current image, determining (125) an object region of the object-of-interest in the current image, calculating (130) a contrast measurement of the object region, and identifying (135) the current image as having an optimized object region ... 07/13/06 - 20060153455 - Method and apparatus of automated optical container code recognition with positional identification for a transfer container crane A method and system providing a transfer container crane with container code recognition of a container identified by a container code to a container inventory management system is disclosed. The system and method are capable of performing these tasks without the use of non-standard container tagging. ... 07/13/06 - 20060153454 - Method for alignment of a graphic object on a overview image of a subject In a method for alignment of a graphic object on an overview image of a subject (in particular of a body part of a patient) shown on a display screen, a graphic object establishes parameters for a subsequent imaging of at least parts of the subject; and an input device ... 06/22/06 - 20060133671 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program When the content of a paper document is aiming to be recognized in an apparatus that has a scanner, an image of the paper document is subjected to region segmentation processing immediately after the paper document is read, and a recognition operation to be performed on each segmented region is ... 06/15/06 - 20060126935 - Method and system for identifying multiple questionnaire pages A method and system for identifying multiple questionnaire pages. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a set of coordinates from a capture device, the set of coordinates indicating shapes made on multiple pages of a questionnaire without the use of a graphical user interface, and mapping each shape to ... 06/15/06 - 20060126934 - Optimized lighting method for slider serial reading using class variance Embodiments of the invention provide a method for setting a light source parameter in order to recognize an identification mark on an object surface. In one embodiment, a grayscale image is generated by setting the light volume of the light source to a given value. Plural thresholds each for binarizing ... 06/08/06 - 20060120604 - Method and apparatus for detecting multi-view faces A method and apparatus for detecting multi-view faces. The method of detecting multi-view face, includes the operations of (a) sequentially attempting to detect from an input image two mode faces among a first mode face made by up and down rotation, a second mode face made by leaning a head ... 06/08/06 - 20060120603 - Method of, and apparatus and computer software for, implementing image analysis protocols A computer-based method for the development of an image analysis protocol for analyzing image data, the image data containing images including image objects, in particular biological image objects such as biological cells. The image analysis protocol, once developed, is operable in an image analysis software system to report on one ... 06/01/06 - 20060115154 - Fire detection and smoke detection method and system based on image processing Fire detection and smoke detection use an image capturing device to obtain images from a predetermined area and adopts an RGB (red, green, blue) color model based chromatic and disorder measurement for extracting fire pixels and smoke pixels. The extracted pixels are inputted to a fire detection fuzzy alarm system ... 05/25/06 - 20060110040 - System and method facilitating pattern recognition A system and method facilitating pattern recognition is provided. The invention includes a pattern recognition system having a convolutional neural network employing feature extraction layer(s) and classifier layer(s). The feature extraction layer(s) comprises convolutional layers and the classifier layer(s) comprises fully connected layers. The pattern recognition system can be trained ... 05/11/06 - 20060098873 - Multiple camera control system A multiple camera tracking system for interfacing with an application program running on a computer is provided. The tracking system includes two or more video cameras arranged to provide different viewpoints of a region of interest, and are operable to produce a series of video images. A processor is operable ... 05/11/06 - 20060098872 - Three-dimensional imaging system for pattern recognition The present invention provides a real-time three-dimensional pattern recognition imaging system having a variable focal length, a wide depth of field, a high depth resolution, a fast acquisition time, a variable magnification, a variable optical axis for tracking, and capability of compensating various optical distortions and aberrations, which enables pattern ... 05/04/06 - 20060093217 - Object detection using cross-section analysis In a method of 3-D object detection, an image is pre-processed. Using cross-section analysis, a confidence array is built. A plurality of peaks in the confidence array are detected, wherein the peaks signify a likelihood of a 3-D object of interest. ... 04/20/06 - 20060083426 - Method and apparatus for reading film grain patterns in a raster order in film grain simulation The present invention provides a method and apparatus for reading film grain patterns in a raster order in film grain simulation including establishing a pseudo-random starting position, repeating the pseudo-random starting position for each line of a group of film grain blocks, and using a different pseudo-random starting position for ... 04/13/06 - 20060078201 - Method, medium, and apparatus for person-based photo clustering in digital photo album, and person-based digital photo albuming method, medium, and apparatus A person-based digital photo clustering method, medium, and apparatus and a person-based digital photo albuming method, medium, and apparatus. The clustering method may include detecting a face area from photo data, extracting predetermined content-based face feature value information from the detected face area, obtaining person-based photo clustering hint information, and ... 04/13/06 - 20060078200 - Apparatus, method and storage medium storing program for recognizing characters An apparatus for recognizing characters includes a text structure analyzing unit that analyzes an input image of text composed of mixed typed and handwritten characters and separates the input text image into predefined text imaging regions, a character clipping unit that clips characters one by one in each of the ... 04/06/06 - 20060072822 - System for extracting information from an identity card The present invention provides a unique and novel system for acquiring digital images of identification documents such as drivers license, passports, or medical insurance records using a digital camera so as to establish a high resolution image and extracting data automatically with machine vision tools so as to acquire accurate ... 03/23/06 - 20060062459 - Character recognition apparatus, character recognition method, and recording medium in which character recognition program is stored A character recognition apparatus includes: a separation processing unit that separates, into printed character portions and handwritten character portions, data of a document in which printed characters and handwritten characters are mixed; a printed character portion recognition processing unit that character-recognizes the printed character portions; and a handwritten character portion ... 03/23/06 - 20060062458 - Method and system for identifying objects in an image Methods and apparatus for identifying objects in an image include processing the image with a gradient operator to produce a gradient magnitude and direction for each pixel. A number of different gradient directions in a portion of the processed image is determined. The portion of the processed image is identified ... 03/09/06 - 20060050961 - Method and system for locating and verifying a finder pattern in a two-dimensional machine-readable symbol A method of locating and verifying a finder pattern in a two-dimensional machine-readable symbol, comprises scanning the image along a line to locate a sequence of regions having different optical properties corresponding to that which would be encountered along a line passing through the center of the finder pattern thereby ... 03/02/06 - 20060045338 - Method and system for object recognition using fractal map A method for recognizing an object in an image is disclosed wherein a fractal map of the image is generated by estimating the fractal dimension of each pixel in the image. The fractal map is segmented by thresholding and locations of candidate objects are determined. The pixel value of the ... 03/02/06 - 20060045337 - Spatial recognition and grouping of text and graphics The present invention leverages spatial relationships to provide a systematic means to recognize text and/or graphics. This allows augmentation of a sketched shape with its symbolic meaning, enabling numerous features including smart editing, beautification, and interactive simulation of visual languages. The spatial recognition method obtains a search-based optimization over a ... 02/16/06 - 20060034515 - Safety souvenir A method for preventing child abductions from a group of individuals seeking admittance to a controlled access environment including the steps of: imaging a first group of individuals; creating a visual representation of the first group; providing at least one member of the first group with the visual representation; allowing ... 02/16/06 - 20060034514 - Device, system, and method for reducing image data captured in-vivo A device, system, and method for reducing image data using spatially varying reduction are described. Images may be captured from an in-vivo device, while the reduced images may be transmitted via wireless communications. Reduction may be achieved by selecting a spatial area of interest on an image frame, dividing the ... 02/09/06 - 20060029277 - Change information recognition apparatus and change information recognition method A change information recognition apparatus comprises a series information storing device for storing series information about a recognition object (a motion picture taken by an image taking device, or the like), and a basic change information storing device for preliminarily storing basic change information corresponding to changes of the series ... 01/26/06 - 20060018544 - Method and apparatus for detecting an orientation of characters in a document image An apparatus and method for extracting a predetermined number of consecutive characters from a document image; converting the consecutive characters into a set of symbols using layout information obtained from the consecutive characters; and detecting an orientation of the consecutive characters using occurrence probabilities of the set of symbols. ... 01/26/06 - 20060018543 - Image decoder and image decoding method An image decoder, which separates luminance data and color difference data from image data in a format in which, while based on ITU-R656, the luminance data (Y), color difference data (Cb/Cr), synchronization data (XY), and identification codes (FF and 00) are at twice the rate of the transmission clock, includes ... 01/26/06 - 20060018542 - Method and apparatus for photograph finding Digital image data including discrete photographic images of a variety of different subjects, times, and so forth, are collected and analyzed to identify specific features in the photographs. In an embodiment of the invention, distinctive markers are distributed to aid in the identification of particular subject matter. Facial recognition may ... 01/26/06 - 20060018541 - Adaptation of exponential models A method and apparatus are provided for adapting an exponential probability model. In a first stage, a general-purpose background model is built from background data by determining a set of model parameters for the probability model based on a set of background data. The background model parameters are then used ... 01/19/06 - 20060013484 - Character recognition method, method of processing correction history of character data, and character recognition system A handwritten character of each writer may have two or more characteristics and the characteristics are not always identical to those of a character in a correction history registered in the past. Thus, handwritten characters may not be recognized only by conventional character recognition. In the present invention, correction history ... 12/29/05 - 20050286764 - Method for scene modeling and change detection A method for dynamic scene modeling and change detection applicable to motion analysis utilizes optical flow for capturing and modeling the dynamics of the scene. Uncertainties in the measurements are evaluated and utilized in order to develop a robust representation of the scene in a higher dimensional space. In another ... 12/15/05 - 20050276479 - Methods and systems for computer based collaboration An exemplary method for computer based collaboration between a plurality of participants communicating over a data network comprises steps of receiving communications data with the computer, using a text analysis tool to identify at least a plurality of k-words from the communications data and a plurality of relations linking at ... 12/15/05 - 20050276478 - Pattern identification apparatus A pattern identification system includes a platform, a conveying device, an illumination device, a video camera unit, a controller, a programmable identification member and a switching member. The conveying device transports a feeding sample sheet on the platform mounted in the pattern identification apparatus. The illumination device projects light on ... 11/10/05 - 20050249414 - Knowledge discovery device, knowledge discovery method, and computer product A knowledge discovery device analyzes a relation between a feature value of an image and attribute data, and discovers a knowledge on the relation. The knowledge discovery device includes a feature-value extraction unit that extracts, as a feature value, each degree of changes in luminance of frequency components at each ... 11/03/05 - 20050244057 - Method for automatic identification of a hair region A method for automatic identification of a hair region is provided wherein edges are identified from an original image including a face and hair, the direction and length of the lines which form each individual edge are stored, line bundles in which lines of the same direction are gathered are ... 10/20/05 - 20050232487 - Active subject privacy imaging A method of surveilling a subject including a person's body may include or an imaging system may provide interrogating the subject with electromagnetic radiation, and generating, from the interrogating, image data representative of at least a first image of at least a portion of the person's body. In some examples, ... 09/29/05 - 20050213817 - Image recognition apparatus and image recognition program This invention intends to provide a relatively inexpensive image recognition apparatus offering a high image recognition rate. An image recognition apparatus 1 provided by the invention is for recognizing movements of players matched against each other between domains partitioned with such an obstacle as net in a sport match or ... 08/25/05 - 20050185841 - Automatic document reading system for technical drawings A system and method for electronic archival of paper-based technical drawings includes a system having a processor, a form learning unit in signal communication with the processor for learning the form of a model drawing image, a form localization unit in signal communication with the processor for localizing the form ... 08/04/05 - 20050169528 - Apparatus and method for detecting a predetermined pattern on a moving printed product An apparatus and method for detecting a relatively narrow predetermined pattern, such as a trigger mark, on a moving printed product uses a plurality of sensor elements arranged linearly in an array and a switching apparatus for selecting a properly located subset of the sensor elements for detecting the predetermined ... 07/28/05 - 20050163376 - Communication system and control method, and computer-readable memory A mobile terminal reads a read manuscript as image data. A character recognition block performs character recognition from the image data, which is read, on the basis of a threshold for judgement of unrecognizableness. A character recognition result is transmitted to a central control unit, or the threshold for judgement ... 07/21/05 - 20050157929 - Pedestrian detection apparatus A pedestrian extracting apparatus of the present invention extracts a whole-body region and a prospective head region based on a pattern matching between an input image picked up by an infrared camera and whole-body/head model images stored in a model-image storage unit. If the whole-body region has not been extracted, ... 07/07/05 - 20050147299 - Global localization by fast image matching An efficient technique is provided for determining a portion of a document corresponding to a captured image. Areas of a document in which the pattern is at least partially obscured are identified. A reference pixel in the image is selected, and an offset between the pixel and the pattern is ... 06/30/05 - 20050141765 - Toboggan-based shape characterization A method and apparatus for characterizing an image. The method selects one or more toboggan potentials from the image, or a portion thereof, to be tobogganed. It toboggans the selected toboggan potentials to generate one or more toboggan parameters, forming at least one toboggan cluster using one or more of ... 06/30/05 - 20050141764 - Pattern analysis method and pattern analysis apparatus A pattern analysis method includes: a first step of preparing pattern layout data including a plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions; a second step of selecting either said plurality of first regions or said plurality of second regions as a target region in which a critical ... 06/09/05 - 20050123199 - Method for optical recognition of a multi-language set of letters with diacritics A method and system for recognizing alphabetic characters that contain diacritics is described. An image analysis separates the character into its constituent components. The one or more diacritic components are then distinguished and isolated from the base portion of the character. Optical recognition is performed separately on the base portion. ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |