| 7036075 |
Reading product fabrication methodology |
| Apr-25-2006 |
A text enhancement method and apparatus for the presentation of text for improved human reading. The method includes extracting text specific attributes from machine readable text and varying the text... |
| 7028253 |
Agent for integrated annotation and retrieval of images |
| Apr-11-2006 |
A method for integrated retrieval and annotation of stored images involves running a user application in which text entered by a user is continuously monitored to isolate the context expressed by the text.... |
| 6970894 |
Method for extracting information from a file using a printer driver |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A method and apparatus for extracting information from a file. A file is processed through an owning application with a printer driver to generate a representation having a modified format. Information... |
| 6966029 |
Script embedded in electronic documents as invisible encoding |
| Nov-15-2005 |
Documents that contain content information and script information that controls user-interactivity with the document are encoded as a content section that is separate from the script information. The script... |
| 6920608 |
Chart view for reusable data markup language |
| Jul-19-2005 |
Methods and systems provide a "chart view" for a markup language referred to as Reusable Data Markup Language ("RDML"). Generally, a chart view comprises the components necessary for automatically manipulating... |
| 6892348 |
Reformatting a document using fuzzy matching |
| May-10-2005 |
Reformatting a previously formatted document. A unique interface allows preview and selection of both a color set and a font set. A color set comprises a plurality of colors defining a color scheme. The... |
| 6886133 |
Interactive formatting interface |
| Apr-26-2005 |
An interactive formatting tool enables a user to analyze and modify the formatting properties that have been applied to a text string. A user can invoke the formatting tool by displaying an Interactive... |
| 6868524 |
Method and apparatus for text layout across a region |
| Mar-15-2005 |
The present invention displays text within a region by identifying text boxes within the region. To identify the text boxes, the invention uses scan lines that are spaced at intervals that are smaller... |
| 6798913 |
Image processing device and image processing program |
| Sep-28-2004 |
An image processing device and a computer program product capable of accurately determining a user-desired region even when a region has been only roughly marked by a user, wherein a specific region within... |
| 6757889 |
Source program checking device and program and method for same |
| Jun-29-2004 |
A group setting section divides indicated messages according to types upon receiving an instruction from the user and sets a default display status for the messages by group. An indicated message preparing... |
| 6748123 |
Displaying multi-line fields for key-in |
| Jun-8-2004 |
A method for displaying data includes receiving an input image of alphanumeric characters appearing on first and second lines. The characters are concatenated into a single line so as to generate an output... |
| 6683631 |
System and method for selecting and deselecting information in an electronic document |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A system and method processes selected regions in an electronic text to edit the selected region on a continuous basis, without destroying the original highlighting and forcing the user to re-bracket the... |
| 6665842 |
Adaptive font sizes for network browsing |
| Dec-16-2003 |
When retrieving documents over a network, such as the Internet, the font size imposed by default or by a style sheet is sometimes not the right size for comfortable viewing by a user. A database of font... |
| 6622239 |
Method, system and computer program product for optimization of single byte character processing employed within a multibyte character encoding scheme |
| Sep-16-2003 |
A method, system and computer program product for optimizing processing of single byte characters employed within a multibyte character encoding scheme in association with an underlying data encoding scheme... |
| 6584479 |
Overlay presentation of textual and graphical annotations |
| Jun-24-2003 |
A primary body of data is displayable on a screen and a supporting body of data is relatable to an annotation tag present in the primary body of textual data. An annotation tag having a predetermined size... |
| 6490576 |
Electronic apparatus having a dictionary function |
| Dec-3-2002 |
An electronic dictionary has a keyboard having a format key, a priority key, and a non-display key. Operation of the format key causes a display format for a currently displayed word to be stored in a... |
| 6462756 |
System and method for visual representation of pages in a production printing workflow |
| Oct-8-2002 |
A system and method for managing production printing workflow is disclosed. The system includes workflow management software which manages and facilitates the procedural stages of the workflow including... |
| 6427155 |
Electronic document display, document display method and recording medium |
| Jul-30-2002 |
To provide an electronic dictionary that stylizes the display based on data pertaining to the number of times and frequency with which a search is performed, thereby making it easy to use, and to provide... |
| 6421673 |
Method for mapping applications and or attributes in a distributed network environment |
| Jul-16-2002 |
A disclosed method includes mapping at least one local application module to respective message type data, and storing the message type data in association with the local application module in a local... |
| 6411314 |
System and method for representing and controlling a production printing workflow |
| Jun-25-2002 |
A system and method for managing production printing workflow is disclosed. The system includes workflow management software which manages and facilitates the procedural stages of the workflow including... |
| 6381612 |
Link information maintenance and management method |
| Apr-30-2002 |
A link information management method which is capable of reducing the number of steps of a link maintenance processing of link information indicating a corresponding relationship between geographical information... |
| 6330576 |
User-friendly information processing device and method and computer program product for retrieving and displaying objects |
| Dec-11-2001 |
An information processing device and method and computer program product which allow users to easily determine whether retrieved objects are desired ones or not, by displaying the retrieved objects in... |
| 6279017 |
Method and apparatus for displaying text based upon attributes found within the text |
| Aug-21-2001 |
A text enhancement method and apparatus for the presentation of text for improved human reading. The method includes extracting text specific attributes from machine readable text and varying the text... |
| 6173288 |
System and method for building a data structure of converted values without keywords from an input string including keyword/text value pairs |
| Jan-9-2001 |
An application program interface (API) provides an interface for common gateway interface (CGI) programs to parse a CGI input string of keywords and their values, each keyword/value pair being all text... |
| 6144389 |
Intelligent terminal device having capability of displaying transmitted data |
| Nov-7-2000 |
An intelligent terminal device capable of displaying message information to be transmitted/received by using a font having a predetermined size depending upon the amount of the information and of changing... |
| 6094648 |
User interface for document retrieval |
| Jul-25-2000 |
A user interface for a full-text document retrieval computerized system comprises a display with a words window in which each query word is displayed by means of a distinctive representation uniquely associated... |
| 6085204 |
Electronic dictionary and information displaying method, incorporating rotating highlight styles |
| Jul-4-2000 |
An electronic dictionary, in which a highlight style storage section in a ROM pre-stores display data of a variety of styles for the highlight display, such as a solid shade, an underline, and a frame... |
| 6065008 |
System and method for secure font subset distribution |
| May-16-2000 |
This invention concerns a system and method for securely distributing subsetted fonts from a distributor to a client. The system includes a signing module to construct an authentication tree having leaves... |
| 6052692 |
Method and system for managing image related events without compromising image processing |
| Apr-18-2000 |
A system and method for managing an image related event is disclosed. In one aspect, the method and system remove an image file on a digital imaging device. The image file is capable of including incompletely... |
| 6052108 |
Method of displaying text having improved useability |
| Apr-18-2000 |
A method of displaying text having improved useability is described which overcomes the difficulty of losing eye contact with an occurrence of a word in a line of text as the display is changed from one... |
| 6032157 |
Retrieval method using image information |
| Feb-29-2000 |
For retrieving attribute information through image information which is not linked with the attribute information: displaying on a display screen the first image information corresponding with attribute... |
| 5978801 |
Character and/or character-string retrieving method and storage medium for use for this method |
| Nov-2-1999 |
A character and/or character-string retrieving method with retrieves a plurality of patterns at a time by using a single deterministic finite automaton prepared from a plurality of different patterns.... |
| 5978800 |
Method of searching data for a given character string |
| Nov-2-1999 |
An upper search on data to be searched is performed with a different condition from partial matching of a character string, and data items narrowed down thereby are counted. Then, it is determined whether... |
| 5857199 |
Retrieval method using image information |
| Jan-5-1999 |
For retrieving attribute information through image information which is not linked with the attribute information: displaying on a display screen the first image information corresponding with attribute... |
| 5857185 |
Method and system for searching and for presenting the search results in an attribute that corresponds to the retrieved documents |
| Jan-5-1999 |
The electronic document database searching system displays search results using a display attribute that corresponds to the attribute of the string in each original electronic document. The system also... |
| 5802533 |
Text processor |
| Sep-1-1998 |
A text enhancement method and apparatus for the presentation of text for improved human reading. The method includes extracting text specific attributes from machine readable text and varying the text... |
| 5794237 |
System and method for improving problem source identification in computer systems employing relevance feedback and statistical source ranking |
| Aug-11-1998 |
Objects or files are created containing problem source identification information. The database of problem source identification methods is provided to the user through a computer user interface with statistical... |
| 5794236 |
Computer-based system for classifying documents into a hierarchy and linking the classifications to the hierarchy |
| Aug-11-1998 |
A computer system uses a legal hierarchy annotated with seed citations to generate a control file, and then using the control file, permits legal documents to be classified automatically into the legal... |
| 5761686 |
Embedding encoded information in an iconic version of a text image |
| Jun-2-1998 |
An encoding operation encodes binary data that is then embedded in an iconic, or size-reduced, version of an original text image, in a position in the iconic image that replaces a text portion in the original... |
| 5737620 |
Image processing method and apparatus having an interpreter function for converting information described in a page description language into image data |
| Apr-7-1998 |
An image processing method and apparatus for producing and outputting combined image data by combining first image data, which is produced by interpreting image information described in page-description... |
| 5680527 |
Information processing system having recognized pattern control |
| Oct-21-1997 |
An information processing system has a memory to store information, a display device such as an LCD to display the information, as an image, stored in the memory, and a pattern input device such as a transparent... |
| 5664109 |
Method for extracting pre-defined data items from medical service records generated by health care providers |
| Sep-2-1997 |
A central medical record repository for a managed health care organization accepts and stores medical record documents in any format from medical service providers. The repository then identifies the document... |
| 5617115 |
Word processing unit with document display function |
| Apr-1-1997 |
A word processor with a document retrieval function which successively and continuously displays retrieved documents which have been converted into code information and stored in the code information storage... |
| 5579466 |
Method and system for editing and formatting data in a dialog window |
| Nov-26-1996 |
A method and system for editing and formatting data in a dialog window is provided. In a preferred embodiment, a rich text edit control is provided to support a rich text edit field in a user dialog. Different... |
| 5500931 |
System for applying font style changes to multi-script text |
| Mar-19-1996 |
A method and system for automatically selecting a set of characters and applying a font so that a user sees the characters and fonts expected to appear in a document. The preferred embodiment of the invention... |
| 5465378 |
Report generating system |
| Nov-7-1995 |
A preferred report generating system includes a computer (12) responsive to user-spoken inputs for selecting previously defined report material including text and graphics stored in memory respectively... |
| 5413420 |
Wordprocessing device |
| May-9-1995 |
A wordprocessing device having a keyboard which can input characters having a plurality of attributes. The character string can be modified when output such that all the characters have a common attribute,... |
| 5409318 |
Font generation method and apparatus with single font memory for serving different scan formats |
| Apr-25-1995 |
A font generation apparatus comprises a memory in which font data, which represents a matrix of dots or the outline of a font, is stored. The logic states of the stored bits are converted so that a bit... |
| 5361205 |
Apparatus for translating lingual morphemes as well as the typographical morphemes attached thereto |
| Nov-1-1994 |
An apparatus which translates a document (character string) having various kinds of typographical information, such as on a font size and on a font style, as character attributes, and reflects the typographical... |
| 5293473 |
System and method for editing a structured document to modify emphasis characteristics, including emphasis menu feature |
| Mar-8-1994 |
A data processing system and method are disclosed for editing a text document stored as an alphanumeric string of structured document text and displayed as WYSIWYG text. The invention enables changing... |
