| 7003159 |
Document frame recognition system and method |
| Feb-21-2006 |
Frames such as boxes or rectangles are recognized in image document data. A first determination process initially screens frames by applying a first set of criteria to select frame candidates. The first... |
| 6975762 |
Ruled line extracting apparatus for extracting ruled line from normal document image and method thereof |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A ruled line extracting apparatus obtains circumscribed rectangles of pixel concatenation regions included in an input pattern, and calculates the most frequent value of their heights. Additionally, the... |
| 6813381 |
Method and apparatus for identification of documents, and computer product |
| Nov-2-2004 |
In the document identification apparatus, a ruled line feature extraction section determines a black pixel ratio of a document to be identified, and adds the black pixel ratio for each block to extract... |
| 6785420 |
Method and apparatus for table recognition, apparatus for character recognition, and computer product |
| Aug-31-2004 |
The character recognition apparatus incorporates a table recognition section. This table recognition section extracts circumscribing rectangles from connected components of black pixels on a whole surface... |
| 6721463 |
Apparatus and method for extracting management information from image |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A management information extraction apparatus learns the structure of the ruled lines of a document and the position of user-specified management information such as a title, etc. during a form learning... |
| 6704450 |
Apparatus and method for extracting management information from image |
| Mar-9-2004 |
A management information extraction apparatus learns the structure of the ruled lines of a document and the position of user-specified management information such as a title, etc. during a form learning... |
| 6622137 |
System and method for business decision implementation in a billing environment using decision operation trees |
| Sep-16-2003 |
A decision operation tree ("DO Tree") according to the present invention is a logical tree representation of decision making rules and actions instituted according to those rules. In preferred embodiments... |
| 6327387 |
Apparatus and method for extracting management information from image |
| Dec-4-2001 |
A management information extraction apparatus learns the structure of ruled lines of a document and the position of user-specified management information such as a title, etc. during a form learning process,... |
| 6226402 |
Ruled line extracting apparatus for extracting ruled line from normal document image and method thereof |
| May-1-2001 |
A ruled line extracting apparatus obtains circumscribed rectangles of pixel concatenation regions included in an input pattern, and calculates the most frequent value of their heights. Additionally, the... |
| 6006240 |
Cell identification in table analysis |
| Dec-21-1999 |
The present invention handles fully-lined, semi-lined and line-less cell tables by identifying the cells and cell separators during page recomposition processes as part of optical character recognition... |
| 5896464 |
Ruled line elimination apparatus and method |
| Apr-20-1999 |
In the ruled line elimination apparatus of the present invention, the ruled line contacting a character or overlapping to the character is completely eliminated. First, a ruled line determination section... |
| 5867159 |
Document processing apparatus for displaying a plurality of ruled lines at regular intervals |
| Feb-2-1999 |
A document processing apparatus for easily editing a table includes: an input device to input data corresponding to the number of ruled lines to be displayed; position indicating device for indicating... |
| 5815704 |
Document filing apparatus and method having document registration, comparison and retrieval capabilities |
| Sep-29-1998 |
In a document filing apparatus, a file memory previously stores a plurality of documents including of line data, character data and image data. An image input section inputs a new document as image data.... |
| 5805881 |
Method and apparatus for generating arbitrary output records in response to output designation of records |
| Sep-8-1998 |
In order to obtain an accounting form required by a person who has no expert knowledge, a first designation units designates record names of output records, and item contents (e.g., item codes) of the... |
| 5708730 |
Table recognition apparatus |
| Jan-13-1998 |
A table recognition apparatus for recognizing a table image wherein coexist characters and ruled lines. The apparatus comprises a character/ruled line separating part for separating characters from ruled... |
| 5544296 |
Document output method |
| Aug-6-1996 |
When a field framing line for surrounding record data upon record data output is drawn on a display screen, the parameters of each line segment constituting the field framing line are generated and stored.... |
| 5432897 |
Method and an apparatus for editing tree structures in display |
| Jul-11-1995 |
A method and an apparatus for editing displayed tree structures allows movement and connection of a moving object in the tree structure to an aimed object with a reduced number of operational steps and... |
| 5425138 |
Apparatus and method for automatically editing documents including text data and table data with ruled lines |
| Jun-13-1995 |
An apparatus of this invention is designed to output document data including ruled line data upon proportionally arranging the data on one page to prevent the disruption of the relationship between the... |
| 5420695 |
Image reading and forming apparatus for identifying and correcting the gridlines of a table |
| May-30-1995 |
An image forming apparatus has an image reading and correcting device capable of reading a document including a table, identifying the table (guideline) from the document correcting the table, and then... |
| 5307493 |
"C" program source blocker |
| Apr-26-1994 |
A programming tool for providing a graphical representation of the relationships among a plurality of nested blocks integrated into a processed "C" source code listing is disclosed. For each line of code... |
| 5289571 |
Layout display control system for displaying size of displayed table |
| Feb-22-1994 |
A layout display control system for a document processing apparatus wherein dimensional information of a table is displayed together with the layout of a table to allow the user to recognize specific dimensions... |
| 5289169 |
Composite underlining functions for text processors |
| Feb-22-1994 |
Disclosed are text processing methods and text processing apparatus in an imaging system which images text characters and associated text functions, and specifically images text underline functions. The... |
| 5263131 |
Data processing apparatus for outputting ruled lines on successive pages |
| Nov-16-1993 |
The data processing apparatus comprises a line counter for counting total number of output lines while outputting ruled lines, characters, and symbols and a input data memory for storing the data of characters,... |
| 5257347 |
Display methods and apparatus |
| Oct-26-1993 |
A display method and apparatus in which a two-dimensional display constituting a perspective view of a three-dimensional surface consists of an array of discrete points appearing to model the surface.... |
| 5185854 |
Document processing apparatus having a ruled line print control function |
| Feb-9-1993 |
A document processing apparatus having a ruled line print control function includes an input device for inputting a ruled line, a storage device for storing the ruled line, a ruled line print control device... |
| 5002408 |
Apparatus and method for printing character and ruled line |
| Mar-26-1991 |
An apparatus for printing characters and ruled lines which includes an input device for inputting character data and lateral and longitudinal line data, a printing device for printing characters and ruled... |
| 4980841 |
Block processing apparatus |
| Dec-25-1990 |
A ruled line block processing apparatus has a ROM, a RAM, a keyboard including a ruled line block key and a breakpoint mark key, a CPU, a character generator, and a printer. The RAM includes areas of a... |
| 4760552 |
Ruled line development system in a word processing apparatus |
| Jul-26-1988 |
A ruled line pattern is divided into four line elements, two of them being assigned to represent the vertical rule line and the remaining two elements being assigned to represent the horizontal rule line.... |
