K-NFB READING TECHNOLOGY, INC. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150138220 | Systems and methods for displaying scanned images with overlaid text - Disclosed are techniques and systems to provide a scanned image in which a portion of the image is overlaid with OCR generated text corresponding to the text of the original scanned document. | 05-21-2015 |
20150088505 | AUDIO SYNCHRONIZATION FOR DOCUMENT NARRATION WITH USER-SELECTED PLAYBACK - Disclosed are techniques and systems to provide a narration of a text. In some aspects, the techniques and systems described herein include generating a timing file that includes elapsed time information for expected portions of text that provides an elapsed time period from a reference time in an audio recording to each portion of text in recognized portions of text | 03-26-2015 |
20150054744 | Document Mode Processing For Portable Reading Machine Enabling Document Navigation - Controlling a reading machine while reading a document to a user by receiving an image of a document, accessing a knowledge base that provides data that identifies sections in the document and processing user commands to select a section of the document. The reading machine applies text-to-speech to a text file that corresponds to the selected section of the document, to read the selected section of the document aloud to the user. | 02-26-2015 |
20150043822 | Machine And Method To Assist User In Selecting Clothing - A device to convey information to a user regarding clothing. The device receives data that specifies a clothing mode to use for processing an image, accesses a knowledge base to provide data to configure the computer program product for the clothing mode, the data including data specific to the clothing mode and receives an image or images of an article of clothing. The device processes the image or images to identify patterns in the image corresponding to items of clothing based on information obtained from the knowledge base. | 02-12-2015 |
20150042562 | Image Resizing For Optical Character Recognition In Portable Reading Machine - A reading machine that operates in various modes includes image correction processing is described. The reading device pre-processes an image for optical character recognition by receiving the image and determining whether text in the image is too large or small for optical character recognition processing by determining that text height falls outside of a range in which optical character recognition software will recognize text in a digitized image. If necessary the image is resized according to whether the text is too large or too small. | 02-12-2015 |
20140037149 | Navigation Using Portable Reading Machine - Navigation techniques including map based and object recognition based and especially adapted for use in a portable reading machine are described. | 02-06-2014 |
20130266206 | Training A User On An Accessibility Device - A user of an accessibility device is taught to properly use the device with a test image such that the accessibility device captures the entirety of or a large portion of a test image. In training the user, the device processes test image's information located within the device's field of view. Based on this processed information, the device indicates to the user if the device should be re-positioned such that a larger portion of the test image comes within the device's field of view. | 10-10-2013 |
20130144625 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS DOCUMENT NARRATION - Disclosed are techniques and systems to provide a narration of a text in multiple different voices. In some aspects, systems and methods described herein can include receiving a user-based selection of a first portion of words in a document where the document has a pre-associated first voice model and overwriting the association of the first voice model, by the one or more computers, with a second voice model for the first portion of words. | 06-06-2013 |
20100331043 | DOCUMENT AND IMAGE PROCESSING - Computer implemented methods, apparatus and computer program product are described that involve capturing images of a plurality of documents and performing specialized processing on the documents for generalized translation, menu translation, expense reporting, business card and social networking site updating, calendar updating and currency identification. Other specialized applications are also disclosed. | 12-30-2010 |
20100329555 | Systems and methods for displaying scanned images with overlaid text - Disclosed are techniques and systems to provide a scanned image in which a portion of the image is overlaid with OCR generated text corresponding to the text of the original scanned document. | 12-30-2010 |
20080231950 | Reading Machine with Camera Polarizer Layers - A reading machine includes an image input device including a lens and a polarizer disposed over the lens, a flash and a second polarizer disposed over the flash. The image input device also includes a computing device coupled to the image input device for capturing images, the computing device, including a processor to execute instructions and a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing the processor to process the captured images to recognize features in the captured images. | 09-25-2008 |