Method of reading characters and method of reading postal addresses
    1.
    发明授权
    Method of reading characters and method of reading postal addresses 失效
    阅读字体的方法和阅读邮政地址的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06246794B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-06-12

    申请号:US08763515

    申请日:1996-12-11

    IPC分类号: G06K918

    摘要: A character reading method has enhanced character segmentation accuracy and character string recognition accuracy for reading correctly hand-written addresses on postal matters. The method extracts provisional character patterns from image information of the address character string (step 206), creates a table 219 of tentative character patterns and implements the character classification for the tentative character patterns (step 207), extracts, specifically for characters of the street number portion of the address character string, periphery information (vertical and horizontal lengths, vertical/horizontal length ratio, pattern spacings, etc.) of tentative character patterns (step 212), and segments the character string into characters accurately based on the information (step 215).

    摘要翻译: 字符读取方法具有增强的字符分割精度和字符串识别精度,可以正确地阅读手写地址在邮政事务上。 该方法从地址字符串的图像信息中提取临时字符模式(步骤206),创建临时字符模式的表219并实现临时字符模式的字符分类(步骤207),专门提取街道的字符 地址字符串的数字部分,临时字符图案的周边信息(垂直和水平长度,垂直/水平长度比,图案间隔等)(步骤212),并且基于该信息将字符串分割成字符 步骤215)。

    Address reader, sorting machine such as a mail thing and character string recognition method
    2.
    发明授权
    Address reader, sorting machine such as a mail thing and character string recognition method 有权
    地址阅读器,邮件分类机和字符串识别方法等

    公开(公告)号:US06291785B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-09-18

    申请号:US09245745

    申请日:1999-02-08

    IPC分类号: B07C500

    CPC分类号: G06K9/00469 Y10S209/90

    摘要: An address reader method and apparatus for recognizing a receiver address on a surface of mail. In the invention an image of the surface of the mail is input and segmented into at least one character string candidate. At least one address area candidate is extracted from the image based upon the segmented character string candidate. One of the address area candidates extracted from the image is selected as a receiver address of the mail by analyzing each of the address area candidates based on predetermined position information indicating a usual position of a receiver address area, character direction information indicating a character direction of a character string appropriate for the predetermined position information, and key character string information indicating a character string most likely to exist in a receiver address. Characters in character strings of the selected address area candidate are recognized as a receiver address which is used to sort the mail.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于识别邮件表面上的接收器地址的地址读取器方法和装置。 在本发明中,邮件的表面的图像被输入并分割成至少一个字符串候选。 基于分割的字符串候选,从图像中提取至少一个地址区候选。 通过基于指示接收机地址区域的通常位置的预定位置信息分析每个地址区域候选,选择从图像提取的地址区域候选中的一个作为邮件的接收者地址,指示字符方向的字符方向信息 适合于预定位置信息的字符串,以及指示最可能存在于接收器地址中的字符串的键字符串信息。 所选地址区候选人的字符串中的字符被识别为用于对邮件进行排序的接收者地址。

    Address reader, sorting machine such as a mail thing and character string recognition method
    3.
    发明授权
    Address reader, sorting machine such as a mail thing and character string recognition method 失效
    地址阅读器,邮件分类机和字符串识别方法等

    公开(公告)号:US06470091B2

    公开(公告)日:2002-10-22

    申请号:US09822254

    申请日:2001-04-02

    IPC分类号: G06K900

    CPC分类号: G06K9/00469 Y10S209/90

    摘要: An address reader method and apparatus for recognizing a receiver address on a surface of mail. An image of the surface of the mail is input and segmented into at least one character string candidate. At least one address area candidate is extracted from the image based upon the segmented character string candidate. One address area candidate extracted from the image is selected as a receiver address by analyzing each address area candidate based on predetermined position information indicating a usual position of a receiver address area, character direction information indicating a character direction of a character string appropriate for the predetermined position information, and key character string information indicating a character string most likely to exist in a receiver address. Characters in character strings of the selected address area candidate are recognized as a receiver address.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于识别邮件表面上的接收器地址的地址读取器方法和装置。 邮件的表面的图像被输入并分割成至少一个字符串候选。 基于分割的字符串候选,从图像中提取至少一个地址区候选。 通过基于指示接收机地址区域的通常位置的预定位置信息分析每个地址区域候选,选择从图像提取的一个地址区域候选作为接收方地址,表示适合于预定的字符串的字符串的字符方向的字符方向信息 位置信息和表示最可能存在于接收方地址中的字符串的键字符串信息。 所选地址区域候选者的字符串中的字符被识别为接收器地址。

    Place name expressing dictionary generating method and its apparatus
    5.
    发明授权
    Place name expressing dictionary generating method and its apparatus 有权
    地名表示字典生成方法及其装置

    公开(公告)号:US06912516B1

    公开(公告)日:2005-06-28

    申请号:US09709435

    申请日:2000-11-13

    摘要: A method and a machine for generating a dictionary of address phrase expressions. One embodiment of the invention includes an apparatus for generating a dictionary of target phrases that includes an input interface for receiving as its input a first address phrase included in a list of address phrase expressions, a memory for storing a dictionary of address phrase variants, including rules for generating variants of address phrase expressions, and a processing device for generating variants of address phrases which generates a second address phrase which is different in expression from the first address phrase to output the second address phrase to a storage device holding the dictionary of target phrases, based on the input first address phrase, and the knowledge of rules about variants included in the dictionary of address phrase variants.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于生成地址短语表达词典的方法和机器。 本发明的一个实施例包括一种用于生成目标短语词典的装置,其包括用于接收地址短语表达式列表中包括的第一地址短语作为其输入的输入接口,用于存储地址短语变体字典的存储器,包括 用于生成地址短语表达式的变体的规则,以及用于生成地址短语的变体的处理设备,其生成表达式与第一地址短语不同的第二地址短语,以将第二地址短语输出到保存目标词典的存储设备 基于输入的第一个地址短语的短语,以及关于地址短语变体的字典中包含的变体的规则的知识。

    Knowledge based information retrieval system
    6.
    发明授权
    Knowledge based information retrieval system 失效
    基于知识的信息检索系统

    公开(公告)号:US5404506A

    公开(公告)日:1995-04-04

    申请号:US831093

    申请日:1992-02-10

    摘要: An information retrieval system with good human-interface methods to give the system ease-of-use having two distinctive features with the first being visual interface and the second being natural language interpretation. The visual interface provides for visual interaction for local search and natural language interpretation provides for linguistic interaction for global search. The visual interface provides versatile views onto the contents of the knowledge base that the system has, controlling mechanisms for browsing through the knowledge base, a capability of showing relevant information for the users, and a mechanism for editing a query expression that describes information to retrieve. By using the visual interface for information retrieval, the users can easily create query expressions, by consulting and reacting with the system. The natural language interpretation makes use of a conceptual network as a knowledge-base that stores important concepts and relationships among these concepts. Based on knowledge and information represented in the conceptual network, the meaning of a noun phrase or a nominal compound which is a string of adjectives and nouns with some prepositions can be inferred. The inferred interpretation of such a noun phrase is paraphrased into an expression that the information retrieval system can handle. Therefore, the user of the system can simply describe the desired information in a language to get the desired information.

    摘要翻译: 一种具有良好人机界面方法的信息检索系统,使系统易用性具有两个独特的特征,第一个是视觉界面,第二个是自然语言解释。 视觉界面提供用于本地搜索的视觉交互,并且自然语言解释为全球搜索提供语言交互。 视觉界面提供了系统具有的知识库内容的多种视图,控制浏览知识库的机制,显示用户相关信息的能力,以及编辑描述要检索的信息的查询表达式的机制 。 通过使用可视化界面进行信息检索,用户可以通过与系统进行协商和反应,轻松创建查询表达式。 自然语言解释使用概念网络作为存储这些概念之间的重要概念和关系的知识库。 基于概念网络中所代表的知识和信息,可以推断名词短语或名词复合词的含义,它是具有一些介词的形容词和名词串。 这种名词短语的推断解释被转换成信息检索系统可以处理的表达式。 因此,系统的用户可以简单地用语言描述期望的信息以获得期望的信息。

    System for character stream search using finite state automaton technique
    8.
    发明授权
    System for character stream search using finite state automaton technique 失效
    使用有限状态自动机技术的字符流搜索系统

    公开(公告)号:US5051886A

    公开(公告)日:1991-09-24

    申请号:US205923

    申请日:1988-06-13

    IPC分类号: G06F17/21 G06F17/30

    摘要: A character stream search system using an FSA for determining at a time whether or not a plurality of character streams as search objects exist in a search character stream which undergoes a search operation and which comprises a plurality of characters expressed with codes. In the system, a collation is conducted between the search character stream and a search object character. In a case where there exists a matched search object character as a result of the collation, a state transition is carried out of a predetermined state indicated by the FSA. In a case where there does not exist a matched search object character, a failure processing to effect a state transition to a transistion destination which is determined in association with the configuration of the FSA. The following processing is completed at a count which is a predetermined upper-limit value for each character undergone the search operation.

    摘要翻译: 一种使用FSA的字符流搜索系统,用于一次确定在经历搜索操作的搜索字符流中是否存在作为搜索对象的多个字符流,并且包括用代码表示的多个字符。 在系统中,在搜索字符流和搜索对象字符之间进行归类。 在作为对照的结果存在匹配的搜索对象字符的情况下,由FSA指示的预定状态执行状态转换。 在不存在匹配的搜索对象字符的情况下,执行与FSA的配置相关联地确定的转移目的地的状态转换的失败处理。 以对于每个经过搜索操作的字符的预定上限值的计数完成以下处理。

    Picture coding system for document image
    9.
    发明授权
    Picture coding system for document image 失效
    文件图像的图像编码系统

    公开(公告)号:US4937681A

    公开(公告)日:1990-06-26

    申请号:US347220

    申请日:1989-05-04

    IPC分类号: G06T9/00 H04N1/41

    CPC分类号: H04N19/93

    摘要: A picture coding system for a document image data in which a plurality of picture coding methods are subjected to a selection such that document image data is converted so as to obtain an identification code representing the selected coding method and signals obtained by coding the data. The system includes units for detecting and for accumulating code lengths of the codes converted in the respective coding methods, units for detecting and for accumulating a difference between the lengths of the respective codes obtained by the conversion achieved in the coding methods, a storage for storing therein a history of a result of the selection of the preceding coding method, and a change-over judge unit for selecting one of the plural coding methods based on information obtained from the three kinds of units.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于文档图像数据的图像编码系统,其中对多个图像编码方法进行选择,使得文件图像数据被转换以获得表示所选择的编码方法的识别码和通过对数据进行编码获得的信号。 该系统包括用于检测和累加在各个编码方法中转换的代码的代码长度的单元,用于检测并累积通过编码方法实现的转换获得的各个代码的长度之间的差异的单元,用于存储 其中选择上述编码方法的结果的历史,以及用于基于从三种单元获得的信息来选择多种编码方法之一的转换判断单元。

    Multilevel signal compression method
    10.
    发明授权
    Multilevel signal compression method 失效
    多电平信号压缩方法

    公开(公告)号:US4476495A

    公开(公告)日:1984-10-09

    申请号:US364540

    申请日:1982-04-01

    CPC分类号: G06T9/005 H03M7/46

    摘要: A digitized multilevel signal is encoded on the basis of unit combinations each including a run-length bit field indicative of run-length at each of the signal levels and a single continuation bit indicative of transition of the signal levels. The encoding is so modified that a virtual run of zero length is inserted when the transition of the signal levels at adjacent sampling points departs from a predetermined order. Polarity of the continuation bit is inverted upon every transition of the signal level.

    摘要翻译: 数字化多电平信号基于每个包括指示每个信号电平的行程长度的游程长度位字段和指示信号电平转换的单个连续位的单元组合进行编码。 编码被修改为当相邻采样点处的信号电平的转变离开预定顺序时插入零长度的虚拟行程。 在信号电平的每次转换时,连续位的极性反转。