Patents
Patents for G06K 9 - Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints (160,016)
02/2003
02/20/2003US20030035461 Hand-supportable planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) device employing a pair of linear laser diode arrays mounted about a linear image detection array, for illuminating an object to be imaged with a plurality of optically-combined spatially-incoherent planar laser illumination beams (PLIBS) and reducing the speckle-pattern noise power in detected linear images by temporally-averaging detected speckle-noise patterns during the photo-integration time period of said linear image detection array
02/20/2003US20030035460 Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) device employing a linear image detection array having vertically-elongated image detection elements, wherein the height of the vertically-elongated image detection elements and the F/# parameter of the image formation optics are configured to reduce speckle-pattern noise power through spatial-averaging of detected speckle-noise patterns
02/20/2003US20030035098 Pose estimation method and apparatus
02/20/2003US20030034876 Access control method and apparatus for members and guests
02/20/2003US20030034874 System or architecture for secure mail transport and verifiable delivery, or apparatus for mail security
02/20/2003US20030034463 Hand-held document scanner and authenticator
02/20/2003US20030034435 Self-contained integrated color processing imager
02/20/2003US20030034399 Method of and system for enabling a viewer to access and display HTML-encoded documents located on the world-wide web(WWW) by reading network address-encoded bar code symbols
02/20/2003US20030034396 Method of speckle-noise pattern reduction and apparatus therefor based on reducing the spatial-coherence of the planar laser illumination beam before it illuminates the target object by applying spatial phase modulation techniques during the transmission of the PLIB towards the target
02/20/2003US20030034395 Planar light illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based system having a linear image detection chip mounting assembly with means for preventing misalignment between the field of view (FOV) of said linear image detection chip and the co-planar laser illumination beam (PLIB) produced by said PLIIM based system, in response to thermal expansion and/or contraction within said PLIIM based system
02/20/2003US20030034387 Object identification and attribute information acquisition and linking computer system
02/20/2003DE20121522U1 Digital camera has extra green light illumination of the image recording area to improve color shade recognition for use in quality control in printing and other industrial processes
02/20/2003CA2451450A1 System and method for collaborative handwriting input
02/19/2003EP1284466A1 Scoring method and scoring system
02/19/2003EP0944875B1 Personal identification system using multiple parameters having low cross-correlation
02/19/2003CN1397913A Pen-type scanner
02/19/2003CN1397911A Image scanne with reading function of extraction-type data memory module
02/19/2003CN1397910A Scan method for checking document draft
02/19/2003CN1397909A Image processor and method thereof
02/19/2003CN1397908A Image processor
02/19/2003CN1397907A Iamge processor
02/19/2003CN1397869A Electronic autograph on document
02/19/2003CN1101773C Optical device for detecting article existence
02/18/2003US6523018 Neural chip architecture and neural networks incorporated therein
02/18/2003US6522996 Non-stationary/transient signal feature extraction system
02/18/2003US6522860 Image scanning apparatus
02/18/2003US6522779 Representing an image with a posterized joint histogram
02/18/2003US6522774 Method and apparatus for creating a virtual microscope slide
02/18/2003US6522773 Fingertip sensor with integrated key switch
02/18/2003US6522771 Processing scanned security documents notwithstanding corruptions such as rotation
02/18/2003US6522768 Predicting system behavior of a managed system using pattern recognition techniques
02/18/2003US6522766 Watermarking with random zero-mean patches for copyright protection
02/18/2003US6520407 Method and system for recognizing routing information on letters and parcels
02/18/2003CA2104287C Method and apparatus for encoding of data using both vector quantitization and runlength encoding and using adaptive runlength encoding
02/15/2003CA2397466A1 Systems and methods for aggregating related inputs using finite-state devices and extracting meaning from multimodal inputs using aggregation
02/15/2003CA2397451A1 Systems and methods for classifying and representing gestural inputs
02/13/2003WO2003012742A2 tUTOTHRESHOLDING OF NOISY IMAGES
02/13/2003WO2003012737A2 Method and circuits to virtually increase the number of prototypes in artificial neural networks
02/13/2003WO2003012736A2 Method and system for enhancing solutions to a system of linear equations
02/13/2003WO2003012729A1 Fingerprint imaging device
02/13/2003WO2003012724A1 System and method for quantitative assessment of joint diseases and the change over time of joint diseases
02/13/2003WO2003012713A1 Data visualisation system and method
02/13/2003WO2003012518A2 A system for creating microscopic digital montage images
02/13/2003WO2002097717A3 Face and environment sensing watch
02/13/2003WO2002084576A3 Automatic identification and/or verification of line textures such as fingerprints
02/13/2003WO2002059852A3 System and method for reading license plates
02/13/2003WO2002056256A3 A system and method for finding regions of interest for microscopic digital montage imaging
02/13/2003WO2002049500A3 Forecasting and controlling neurological disturbances
02/13/2003WO2002037313A9 Computer method and apparatus for classifying objects
02/13/2003WO2001097165A3 Writing pen with piezo sensor
02/13/2003US20030033530 Variable message coding protocols for encoding auxiliary data in media signals
02/13/2003US20030033436 Method for statistical regression using ensembles of classification solutions
02/13/2003US20030033347 Method and apparatus for inducing classifiers for multimedia based on unified representation of features reflecting disparate modalities
02/13/2003US20030033138 Method for partitioning a data set into frequency vectors for clustering
02/13/2003US20030033125 Similarity transformation method for data processing and visualization
02/13/2003US20030033090 Managing images of microscopic specimens
02/13/2003US20030033066 Image processing system for estimating the energy transfer of an occupant into an airbag
02/13/2003US20030031660 Administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of heparanase for inducing bone formation
02/13/2003US20030031380 Method and apparatus for visualization and manipulation of real 3-D objects in networked environments
02/13/2003US20030031374 Image processing apparatus and method and program of the same
02/13/2003US20030031367 System and method for automatic recognition of formations in moving target indication data
02/13/2003US20030031366 Image processing method and apparatus using self-adaptive binarization
02/13/2003US20030031357 System and method for analyzing an image
02/13/2003US20030031356 Pattern inspection apparatus and method
02/13/2003US20030031355 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program for executing image processing method, and storage medium that stores program for executing image processing method
02/13/2003US20030031352 Optical projection imaging system and method for automatically detecting cells with molecular marker compartmentalization associated with malignancy and disease
02/13/2003US20030031351 Vessel delineation in magnetic resonance angiographic images
02/13/2003US20030031350 Methods for large scale protein matching
02/13/2003US20030031348 Multimodal biometry
02/13/2003US20030031347 Biosecure method and device
02/13/2003US20030031345 Image segmentation system and method
02/13/2003US20030031344 Method for optimizing off-line facial feature tracking
02/13/2003US20030031341 Printable interfaces and digital linking with embedded codes
02/13/2003US20030030801 Spectral imaging methods and systems
02/13/2003US20030030638 Method and apparatus for extracting information from a target area within a two-dimensional graphical object in an image
02/13/2003US20030030541 Data reader for reading biological data from constrained human body region
02/13/2003US20030029913 Personal identification method and personal identification device
02/13/2003CA2456112A1 Method and system for enhancing solutions to a system of linear equations
02/13/2003CA2452547A1 System and method for quantitative assessment of joint diseases and the change over time of joint diseases
02/12/2003EP1283498A2 White line detection apparatus and white line detection method
02/12/2003EP1282882A1 Method and system for generating a key data record
02/12/2003EP1282881A1 Method for in-situ focus-fusion multi-layer spectral imaging and analysis of particulate samples
02/12/2003EP1282880A2 Method and system for data classification in the presence of a temporal non-stationarity
02/12/2003EP1282866A1 Distributed computing document recognition and processing
02/12/2003EP1282851A1 Gesture recognition system
02/12/2003EP1012777B1 Methods for objectification of subjective classifications
02/12/2003EP0983572B1 Fingerprint sensor including an anisotropic dielectric coating and associated methods
02/12/2003EP0976087B1 Biometric recognition using a master pattern set
02/12/2003EP0938711B1 Improved neural network
02/12/2003CN2535856Y Anti-theft fingerpring identifying handle
02/12/2003CN2535757Y Finger print identifying firearms
02/12/2003CN1397046A Note accounting audit
02/12/2003CN1396759A Image scanner with multiple scanning lines
02/12/2003CN1396558A Antiwear flexible flat cable structure
02/12/2003CN1396557A Method for using triangular marker in scan location and check
02/12/2003CN1396556A Financial deposit monitor system
02/12/2003CN1396554A 图像读取装置和图像读取方法 Apparatus and an image reading method for an image reading
02/11/2003US6519580 Decision-tree-based symbolic rule induction system for text categorization
02/11/2003US6519579 Reliable identification with preselection and rejection class
02/11/2003US6519577 Digital signal filter using weightless neural techniques