Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080260252 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Continuous Character Recognition - A technique for continuously recognizing a character entry into a computer. In one example embodiment, this is achieved by drawing a character in a continuous stroke order using a stylus [ | 10-23-2008 |
20080267534 | Image-Processing System - An image-processing system receives an image from a user and identifies an image-processing instruction which has been added to the image by the user. The instruction corresponds to an image-processing operation which is to be applied to at least a portion of the image in order to manipulate the image into a modified form. When the system is coupled to a device such as a photocopier, the photocopier is controlled to perform the image manipulation in accordance with the identified instruction and to print the modified image. Thus the image can be modified without the need to alter the original image itself. | 10-30-2008 |
20080288896 | Method And System For Attention-Free User Input On A Computing Device - A method and system for attention-free user input on a computing device is described that allows the recognition of a user input irrespective of the area of entry of the user input on a writing surface (such as a digitizer) without the user having to make a visual contact with the writing surface. | 11-20-2008 |
20090102604 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING COMPUTER APPLICATIONS - A method and system for controlling computer applications on a computer system(s). The method comprising: detecting at least one finger of a user's hand on an input device; capturing and transmitting the user's fingerprint data to a computer system; identifying the user from the captured fingerprint data; and controlling at least one computer function associated with the fingerprint data of the identified user. | 04-23-2009 |
20090120694 | Associating Auxilliary Data With Digital Ink - A method of associating auxiliary data with a digital ink stream comprises capturing a sequence of samples representing a digital ink stream and modifying the sample information, or inserting a plurality of new samples into the sample sequence, the modified or new samples representing auxiliary data. New samples are inserted in between existing samples and are essentially imperceptible to a person viewing the digital ink image, while an authorised recipient can extract the auxiliary data. | 05-14-2009 |
20090138725 | Authentication System and Method - An authentication system comprises a sensor for detecting a fingerprint and a doodle drawn by the user. The fingerprint, or other biometric information, is distorted in accordance with the doodle to provide distorted biometric information that is referred to as a doodleprint. The user can use different doodles on different systems, and if the doodleprint is compromised, can change the doodle to create a different doodleprint. | 05-28-2009 |
20090257098 | Simplified Operation Of Scan And Print Devices - An apparatus comprising a document scanner and printer is controlled to scan a document and generate and print an annotation version of the document. A user-completed annotation version of the document is scanned and analyzed to detect one or more defined markings on the scanned document in addition to the document content desired to be scanned by the user. The apparatus is controlled in response to the defined markings. | 10-15-2009 |
20100104189 | Handwriting Identification Method, Program And Electronic Device - A method of identifying at least one handwritten character composed of at least one stroke is disclosed. The method comprises providing a database comprising a plurality of sequences of strokes, the strokes of each sequence defining at least one character, at least some of said sequences comprising a plurality of strokes; capturing a string of handwritten characters, said string comprising the at least one handwritten character; and matching at least a part of the string with a sequence from said plurality of sequences. This method enables the recognition of multi-stroke characters where the positions of the strokes relative to each other are unknown or at least unreliable. A computer program product implementing this method and an electronic device comprising this computer program product are also disclosed. | 04-29-2010 |
20100309527 | ANNOTATION ON MEDIA SHEET INDICATING FUNCTIONALITY TO BE PERFORMED IN RELATION TO IMAGE ON MEDIA SHEET - A media sheet is scanned. The media sheet has an image and an annotation. The annotation indicates a functionality to be performed in relation to the image. The annotation on the media sheet as scanned is detected. The functionality to be performed in relation to the image is determined in correspondence to the annotation detected on the media sheet. The functionality to which the annotation corresponds is performed in relation to the image. | 12-09-2010 |
20100310192 | DOCUMENT STORAGE SYSTEM - Methods for storing and managing hard copy documents and their modified versions are disclosed. Specifically, a method of storing a document and one or more related images of alterations made to the document, comprising capturing an image of the document; storing the image of the document in memory; capturing an image of an altered version of the document; comparing the image of the document to the image of the altered version of the document; extracting the differences between the image of the document and the image of the altered version of the document; creating an image of the extracted differences between the image of the document and the image of the altered version of the document; and storing the image of the extracted differences in memory. | 12-09-2010 |
20110087659 | DOCUMENT RELEVANCE DETERMINING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed is a method and computer program product of determining the relevance of at least a part of an electronic document comprising a plurality of terms distributed over a plurality of regions of said document, comprising displaying the electronic document to a user; determining the gaze characteristics of the person on a region of the electronic document; assigning a relevance score to an individual term in said region based on said characteristics; and generating a term relevance label for said electronic document, said term relevance label comprising relevance scores for the respective individual terms in said document The relevance scores may also be used to define a user profile for the user that can aid in retrieving future documents of relevance to the user. | 04-14-2011 |
20110234492 | Gesture processing - Presented is method and system for processing a gesture performed by a user of an input device. The method comprises detecting the gesture and determining a distance of the input device from a predetermined location. A user command is then determined based on the detected gesture and the determined distance. | 09-29-2011 |
20120026081 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING PAPER AS AN INTERFACE TO COMPUTER APPLICATIONS - A system and method for using paper to interface with handwritten annotations and/or pre-defined templates with one or more computer applications is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes imaging content in the paper including pre-defined handwritten commands, associated syntax, one or more computer application identifiers and pointed data which is already existing on the paper, analyzing the imaged content to identify the pre-defined handwritten commands, the one or more computer applications associated with the one or more computer application identifiers, the associated syntax and the pointed data, extracting the pointed data into a specified format associated with the one or more computer applications, executing the one or more computer applications based on the identified pre-defined handwritten commands, the one or more computer application identifiers and the associated syntax, and importing the extracted pointed data into the one or more executed computer applications. | 02-02-2012 |
20120075184 | SILENT SPEECH BASED COMMAND TO A COMPUTING DEVICE - Presented is a method for executing a command on a computing device. A computing device receives a first command and a second command, wherein the second command is, optionally, silent speech. The first command and the second command are combined to provide a final command to the computing device for execution. | 03-29-2012 |
20120188164 | GESTURE PROCESSING - Presented is method and system for processing a gesture performed by a user of a first input device. The method comprises detecting the gesture and detecting a user-provided parameter for disambiguating the gesture. A user command is then determined based on the detected gesture and the detected parameter. | 07-26-2012 |
20120197991 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTUITIVE INTERACTION OVER A NETWORK - Intuitive interaction may be performed over a network. The interaction may include collection of feedback from participants, wherein the feedback is active, passive, or a combination of both. The feedback from the participants may be aggregated and the aggregated feedback can be provided to at least one participant or a non-participant. | 08-02-2012 |
20120254717 | MEDIA TAGGING - Provided is a method of tagging media. The method identifies at least one region of interest in a media based on a user input and assigns a higher weighted tag to an object identified in at least one region of interest compared to an object present in another region of the media. | 10-04-2012 |
20120278729 | METHOD OF ASSIGNING USER INTERACTION CONTROLS - Provided is a method of assigning user interaction controls. The method assigns, in a scenario where multiple co-present users are simultaneously providing user inputs to a computing device, a first level of user interaction controls related to an object on the computing device to a single user and a second level of user interaction controls related to the object to all co-present simultaneous users of the computing device. | 11-01-2012 |
20130030815 | MULTIMODAL INTERFACE - Provided is a multimodal graphical user interface. The multimodal graphical user interface includes a menu with at least one menu item, wherein the at least one menu item is displayed as command name along with a unique hand shape, wherein the at least one menu item is configured to receive a combination of cursor and selection gesture input. | 01-31-2013 |
20130031517 | HAND POSE INTERACTION - Provided is a method of hand pose interaction. The method recognizes a user input related to selection of an object displayed on a computing device and displays a graphical user interface (GUI) corresponding to the object. The graphical user interface comprises at least one representation of a hand pose, wherein each representation of a hand pose corresponds to a unique function associated with the object. Upon recognition of a user hand pose corresponding to a hand pose representation in the graphical user interface, the function associated with the hand pose representation is executed. | 01-31-2013 |
20130218905 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION FOR GROUPS - A method and apparatus for joint profiling for identifying one or more common interests of members of a group and recommending items accordingly. The method comprises receiving a user profile for each member, the user profile comprising a set of one or more topics of interest to that member; automatically mapping at least one topic from each of the profiles to a concept; deriving a group profile, in dependence upon the concepts and the topics; and generating a list of recommended items for the group based on the group profile. Also presented is a method and apparatus for joint profiling wherein a joint weight for each topic is calculated by: for each user, calculating the reciprocal of a weight associated with the topic for that user; calculating the sum of the resulting reciprocals; and calculating the joint weight as the reciprocal of the resulting sum. | 08-22-2013 |
20130241834 | System and method for using information from intuitive multimodal interactions for media tagging - System and method for using information extracted from intuitive multimodal interactions in the context of media for media tagging are disclosed. In one embodiment, multimodal information related to media is captured during multimodal interactions of a plurality of users. The multimodal information includes speech information and gesture information. Further, the multimodal information is analyzed to identify speech portions of interest. Furthermore, relevant tags for tagging the media are extracted from the speech portions of interest. | 09-19-2013 |
20130257753 | Modeling Actions Based on Speech and Touch Inputs - A method for modifying a computer generated three dimensional model, includes performing a particular modeling action on the model in response to a speech input; performing another modeling action on the model in response to a multi-touch input on a display screen; and displaying said model as so modified on the display screen. | 10-03-2013 |
20130343611 | Gestural interaction identification - A method of identifying gestural interaction comprises detecting a user with an imaging device, detecting with the imaging device the depth value at the centroid of the user with respect to the imaging device, detecting with the imaging device the closest distance of the user with respect to the imaging device, and, with a processor, identifying the initiation of a gestural interaction based on the ratio of the closest distance and the depth value at the centroid of the user is above a predetermined threshold. A computer program product for identifying initiation and termination of gestural interaction within a gestural interaction system comprises a computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising computer usable program code that identifies the initiation of a gestural interaction by a user depending on whether a virtual bubble around the user has been broken. | 12-26-2013 |
20140010418 | LIP ACTIVITY DETECTION - Provided is a method of detecting lip activity. The method determines magnitude of optical flow in lip region and at least one non-lip region of a detected face. The ratio of magnitude of optical flow in lip region and at least one non-lip region is compared against a threshold. If the ratio is found to be greater than the threshold, lip activity of the detected face is recognized. | 01-09-2014 |
20140132505 | Multimodal interactions based on body postures - In one example, a method for multimodal human-machine interaction includes sensing a body posture of a participant using a camera ( | 05-15-2014 |