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| 20090208059 | Fast License Plate Verifier - A method for identifying vehicles, including capturing a first image of a first vehicle using a first camera at a first position and a second image of the first vehicle using a second camera at a second position different from the first position. The method further includes determining a transformation between the first image and the second image. A third image of a second vehicle using the first camera is captured, and the transformation is applied to the third image to generate a fourth image of the second vehicle. The fourth image is analyzed, using a database of identified vehicles, to determine an identity of the second vehicle. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090212929 | Verifying Vehicle Authenticity - A method for verifying authenticity of a vehicle, including programming a device to sequentially change a device element to an altered device element according to a change device element algorithm, and attaching the device to the vehicle. The method also includes generating the altered device element, and verifying that the altered device element matches an expected device element generated by the algorithm. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090220175 | Adaptive OCR for Books - A system is presented for scanning entire books or document all at once using an adaptive process where the book or document has known fonts and unknown fonts. The known fonts are processed through a verification system where sure words and error words are determined. Both the sure words and error words are sent to OCR training where they are re-OCR'ed and repeatedly verified until they meet a predetermined quality criteria. Characters or words not meeting the predetermined quality criteria receive additional OCR training until all the characters and words pass the predetermined quality criteria. Unknown fonts are scanned and clustered together by shape. Outliers in the shapes are manually keyed-in. Those symbols that are manually classified go to OCR training and then to the known type optimization process. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090245659 | Fast Key-In for Machine-Printed OCR-based Systems - A method for correcting results of OCR or other scanned symbols that initially scans a document, performs OCR classification on the scanned document. Clustering of characters/symbols classifications that results from the OCR based on shapes is followed by the creation of super-symbols based on at least first differences in the shapes of the clustered characters/symbols exceeding a first threshold. A carpet of the super symbols is displayed for analysis testing and that provides a display that emphasizes localized differences in similar symbols. Depending on the results of the analysis testing, the carpet of super symbols is one of: (1) stored as a cluster symbols when the carpet of super-symbols passes all of the analysis testing; (2) used to create additional super symbols based on at least a second difference in the shapes of clustered symbols exceeding a second threshold and returning the additional super symbols to the displaying step for further analysis testing; and (3) rejected as a clustered of symbols when the super symbols fail most of the analysis testing and stored by manually keying-in the symbols. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090263019 | OCR of books by word recognition - Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide automated global optimization methods and systems of OCR, tailored to each document being digitized. A document-specific database is created from an OCR scan of a document of interest, which contains an exhaustive listing of words in the document. Images of each word, taken from all the fonts encountered, are entered into the database and mapped to a corresponding textual representation. After entry of a first instance of an image of a word written in a particular font, each new occurrence of the word in that font can be quickly recognized by image processing techniques. The disclosed methods and systems may be used in conjunction with adaptive character recognition training and word recognition training of the OCR engines. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090273597 | USER INTERFACE SCREEN LAYOUT ANALYSIS USING HIERARCHICAL GEOMETRIC FEATURES - A technique is disclosed for the performance of application software “screen layout” testing analysis by designation of “fiduciary blocks” (e.g., words, boxes etc.) to serve as geometrical features for identification of data fields of interest viewed within a graphical user interface (GUI) screen. The set of designated “geometric fiduciary blocks” is then assembled into a “hierarchical structure” to analyze test results involving the data fields contained within each block. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100027896 | AUTOMATED APPLICATION INTERACTION USING A VIRTUAL OPERATOR - A computer-implemented method for automating interaction with a computer system includes linking a control computer system to an input interface and to an output interface of a client computer system, which is operative for producing user interface images on a display device. The control computer system executes distinct software modules that include a virtual operator for simulating actions of a human operator. Execution of the software modules causes the control computer system to capture an image from the output interface, and to recognize information in the image. In response to the information, the virtual operator controls an input device to automatically execute predetermined operations on the client computer system via the input interface. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100076855 | POINT OF SALE SYSTEM WITH ITEM IMAGE CAPTURE AND DEFERRED INVOICING CAPABILITY - A novel and useful mechanism and method for processing transactions on a point of sale system comprising of a conveyor system which continuously moves when one ore more items or items are resting on the conveyor system, and a sensing system to capture the information necessary to identify the items on the conveyor. When all items are correctly recognized by the sensing devices, the customer is charged for the items and an invoice is printed. In the event all the items are not correctly recognized the captured information is forwarded to a remote location for automated recognition processing and manual identification, if necessary. Once all the items are successfully identified, the customer is charged for the purchase and an invoice is processed and sent to the customer. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100082470 | METHOD FOR REMOTE CHECK DEPOSIT - A method and system for depositing a negotiable instrument, such as a check, using a cellular phone camera. The customer images the check for deposit by taking a photograph of the check with his cellular phone camera and sends the photograph as a MMS to the customer's bank. The system enables validating image quality, automatically recognizing code line, confirming geographical location of the deposit and verifying a courtesy amount of the check so that the check is deposited into the customer's bank account remotely. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100086210 | DIGITIZING DOCUMENTS - Techniques for performing page verification of a document are provided. The techniques include performing a recognition technique on a document to recognize one or more objects in the document, excluding the one or more recognized objects from the document, and performing page verification of the document, wherein page verification comprises visual inspection of the document excluding the one or more recognized objects. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100106614 | AUTOMATIC SALES ASSISTANT FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE CUSTOMERS - An Automatic Sales Assistant (“ASA”) automates the handling of electronic commerce transactions by gathering all of the relevant information with respect to an electronic commerce transaction being carried out by a customer using a computer and presenting it to the customer in a unified and convenient form (e.g., a template) that the customer may use to properly complete the electronic transaction (e.g., a purchase of retail goods using the Internet). The transaction may be an active document that resides in a private folder on the customer's computer. This type of active process handles all of the procedures related to any given electronic commerce transaction. Moreover, the ASA facilitates the proper resolution of any problems with a transaction by providing all of the necessary support material and information. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100166318 | ADAPTIVE PARTIAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION - A method and system for recognizing a character affected by a noise or an obstruction is disclosed. After receiving an image with characters, a character being affected by a noise or an obstruction is determined. Then, areas in the character where the noise or obstruction affected are precisely located. Templates representing every possible character in the image are updated by removing equivalent areas to the areas in the character being affected by the noise or obstruction. Then, the character is classified in a template among the updated templates by finding the template having the highest number of matching pixels with the character. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100274615 | Extendable Collaborative Correction Framework - A novel and useful system and method for a collaborative correction framework that allows external applications to interface to it in a manner that will serve specific correction goals. The framework is extendable, enabling registration of additional authorized applications to the framework. These additional registered applications are then available to other applications accessing the framework. The collaborative correction system maintains profiles for both corrective tasks and users. When assigning a task to a user the collaborative correction system finds an appropriate match by comparing their respective profiles. | 10-28-2010 |
