公开(公告)号：US5491785A

公开(公告)日：1996-02-13

申请号：US130075

申请日：1993-09-30

申请人： Christopher J. Robson ,  Gregory J. May

发明人： Christopher J. Robson ,  Gregory J. May

IPC分类号： G06F13/00 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30014

摘要： An information retrieval device displays portions of a dynamically modifiable document requested by a user. The information retrieval device has a controller connected to a display screen, input selector switches, such as buttons, and memory, such as non-volatile flash memory. One or more documents, such as a newspaper or magazine, is stored in the memory. A receiver, such as a pager, modem, or FM radio receiver, is connected to and dynamically updates the memory. When the device is turned on, a first portion of a document is displayed on a display screen. When the user wants to see a different portion of the document, or a different document altogether, she presses one of the buttons. Upon detection that a button was enabled, an action is performed that changes the display on the display screen. The action performed can vary in complexity: it may simply cause the next page of the document to be displayed, or may execute a nested hypertext link to cause related information contained in the same or a different document to update only a portion of the display screen. The document is stored in the memory in a manner that allows the display screen to be refreshed directly from the memory. When an updated portion of a document is received by the receiver, that portion of memory is updated.

摘要翻译： 信息检索装置显示用户请求的动态可修改文档的部分。 信息检索装置具有连接到显示屏的控制器，诸如按钮的输入选择器开关和诸如非易失性闪存的存储器。 一个或多个文件，例如报纸或杂志，被存储在存储器中。 诸如寻呼机，调制解调器或FM无线电接收机的接收机被连接到并动态地更新存储器。 当设备打开时，文档的第一部分被显示在显示屏幕上。 当用户想要看到文档的不同部分或完全不同的文档时，她按下其中一个按钮。 一旦检测到按钮被启用，则执行改变显示屏幕上的显示的动作。 所执行的动作可以在复杂性方面变化：它可以简单地导致文档的下一页被显示，或者可以执行嵌套超文本链接以使得包含在相同或不同文档中的相关信息仅更新显示屏幕的一部分 。 该文档以允许从存储器直接刷新显示屏幕的方式存储在存储器中。 当接收者接收到文档的更新部分时，更新该部分内存。

公开(公告)号：US5583949A

公开(公告)日：1996-12-10

申请号：US468517

申请日：1995-06-06

申请人： Raymond W. Smith ,  Christopher J. Robson

发明人： Raymond W. Smith ,  Christopher J. Robson

IPC分类号： G06K9/48 ,  G06K9/68

CPC分类号： G06K9/481 ,  G06K9/68 ,  G06K2209/01

摘要： Optical character recognition is achieved by a system which comprises a scanner for scanning a document, an edge extractor for identifying edges in the image produced by the scanner to produce an outline of each object identified in the image, a segmentation facility for grouping the object outlines into blocks, means for identifying features of the outlines, and a final classification stage for providing data in an appropriate format representative of the characters in the image. Also disclosed are a novel edge extractor, a novel page segmentation facility and a novel feature extraction facility.

摘要翻译： 光学字符识别通过包括用于扫描文档的扫描仪的系统来实现，边缘提取器，用于识别由扫描器产生的图像中的边缘，以产生在图像中识别的每个对象的轮廓，用于对对象轮廓进行分组的分割设备 用于识别轮廓的特征的装置，以及用于以表示图像中的字符的适当格式提供数据的最终分类阶段。 还公开了一种新颖的边缘提取器，新颖的页面分割设备和新颖的特征提取设备。

公开(公告)号：US5638450A

公开(公告)日：1997-06-10

申请号：US639046

申请日：1996-04-16

申请人： Christopher J. Robson

发明人： Christopher J. Robson

IPC分类号： H04H20/81 ,  G08B3/10 ,  H04M11/02 ,  H04W88/18 ,  H04L9/00 ,  H04Q7/08 ,  H04Q7/10

CPC分类号： H04W88/185 ,  G08B3/1008 ,  H04M11/022

摘要： A two way communications path is established between a pager device and a paging service provider. The pager device generates a control command for the paging service provider, converts the control command into signals recognizable by a telephone network, and transmits the signals to the paging service provider over the telephone network. The paging service provider receives the signals from the pager device over the telephone network, generates one or more messages for the pager device in response to these signals, and sends the message(s) to the pager device over a wireless paging network. The pager device receives the message(s) over the wireless paging network.

摘要翻译： 在寻呼机设备和寻呼服务提供商之间建立双向通信路径。 寻呼机设备产生用于寻呼业务提供商的控制命令，将控制命令转换成电话网络可识别的信号，并通过电话网络将信号发送给寻呼服务提供商。 寻呼服务提供商通过电话网络从寻呼机设备接收信号，响应于这些信号为寻呼机设备产生一个或多个消息，并通过无线寻呼网络将消息发送到寻呼机设备。 寻呼机设备通过无线寻呼网络接收消息。

公开(公告)号：US5511160A

公开(公告)日：1996-04-23

申请号：US130076

申请日：1993-09-30

申请人： Christopher J. Robson

发明人： Christopher J. Robson

IPC分类号： G06F3/14 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F15/02 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G06F15/0283

摘要： An information retrieval device displays portions of a document requested by a user. The information retrieval device has a controller connected to a display screen, input selector switches, such as buttons, and non-volatile memory, such as a removable ROM. One or more documents, such as a book or magazine, is stored in the non-volatile memory. When the device is turned on, a first portion of a document is displayed on a display screen. When the user wants to see a different portion of the document, or a different document altogether, she presses one of the buttons. Upon detection that a button was enabled, an action is performed that changes the display on the display screen. The action performs can vary in complexity: it may simply cause the next page of the document to be displayed, or may execute a nested hypertext link to cause related information contained in the same or a different document to update only a portion of the display screen. The document is stored on the non-volatile memory in a manner that allows the display screen to be refreshed directly from the non-volatile memory.

摘要翻译： 信息检索装置显示用户请求的文档的部分。 信息检索装置具有连接到显示屏的控制器，诸如按钮的输入选择器开关和诸如可移动ROM的非易失性存储器。 一个或多个文档，例如书籍或杂志，被存储在非易失性存储器中。 当设备打开时，文档的第一部分被显示在显示屏幕上。 当用户想要看到文档的不同部分或完全不同的文档时，她按下其中一个按钮。 一旦检测到按钮被启用，则执行改变显示屏幕上的显示的动作。 该操作的执行可以在复杂性方面变化：它可以简单地导致文档的下一页被显示，或者可以执行嵌套超文本链接以使得包含在相同或不同文档中的相关信息仅更新显示屏幕的一部分 。 文档以允许从非易失性存储器直接刷新显示屏幕的方式存储在非易失性存储器上。