Patents Assigned to Gracious Eloise, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9934422
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present methods and systems may focus on computer implemented methods of obtaining digitized hand-writing data corresponding to a sample of a needed code point of a set of code points. Such methods may include: obtaining a sample of digitized handwritten text, the sample of digitized handwritten text including glyph data corresponding to a first glyph, the first glyph corresponding to the needed code point of the set of code points; associating the first glyph with the needed code point; identifying stroke data in the glyph data, the stroke data corresponding to a stroke component of the first glyph, determining a plurality of dimensional values of the stroke component in the stroke data; and associating the plurality of dimensional values with a new code point sample of the needed code point in a code point set data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: GRACIOUS ELOISE, INC.
    Inventors: Hugh Stout, R. Ford Hurley, Grover Ehlers
  • Patent number: 9886626
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present methods and systems may focus on computer implemented methods of obtaining digitized hand-writing data corresponding to a sample of a needed code point of a set of code points. Such methods may include: obtaining a sample of digitized handwritten text, the sample of digitized handwritten text including glyph data corresponding to a first glyph, the first glyph corresponding to the needed code point of the set of code points; associating the first glyph with the needed code point; identifying stroke data in the glyph data, the stroke data corresponding to a stroke component of the first glyph, determining a plurality of dimensional values of the stroke component in the stroke data; and associating the plurality of dimensional values with a new code point sample of the needed code point in a code point set data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: GRACIOUS ELOISE, INC.
    Inventors: Hugh Stout, R. Ford Hurley, Grover S. Ehlers
  • Patent number: 8699794
    Abstract: Using methods, computer-readable storage media, and apparatuses for computer-implemented processing, a passage of text may be variably rendered. For each glyph in the passage of text, a glyph representation is varied according to a geometric transformation that was determined from statistical measurements of at least one geometric property from an ensemble of representations of the current glyph. Each varied glyph representation is included in renderable output data, such that when the passage of text is rendered to an output device, a given rendered representation of a given glyph subtly differs from other rendered representations of the given glyph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Gracious Eloise, Inc.
    Inventors: Eloise Bune D'Agostino, Michael Bennett D'Agostino, Bryan Michael Minor, Tamas Frajka, Michel Francois Pettigrew
  • Publication number: 20130251263
    Abstract: Using methods, computer-readable storage media, and apparatuses for computer-implemented processing, a passage of text may be variably rendered. For each glyph in the passage of text, a glyph representation is varied according to a geometric transformation that was determined from statistical measurements of at least one geometric property from an ensemble of representations of the current glyph. Each varied glyph representation is included in renderable output data, such that when the passage of text is rendered to an output device, a given rendered representation of a given glyph subtly differs from other rendered representations of the given glyph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: GRACIOUS ELOISE, INC.
    Inventors: Eloise Bune D'AGOSTINO, Michael Bennett D'AGOSTINO, Bryan Michael MINOR, Tamas FRAJKA, Michel Francois PETTIGREW
  • Patent number: 8351700
    Abstract: Using methods, computer-readable storage media, and apparatuses for computer-implemented processing, an image of handwritten text may be segmented into a disjoint component image corresponding to individual glyphs connected by ligatures. The disjoint component image is skeletonized into a grid graph, and a connected path traversing the ligatures is determined. The disjoint component image is segmented into non-overlapping segments based on connected graphs corresponding to edges in the disjoint component image, where sets of adjacent non-overlapping segments correspond to the individual glyphs. Glyph geometry may be varied by obtaining an ensemble of glyph representations, each characterized by measurable geometric glyph properties. For each geometric glyph property, target values are obtained from ensemble-wide statistical distribution functions, and the target values are used to transform a base glyph representation into a target glyph representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Gracious Eloise, Inc.
    Inventors: Eloise Bune D'Agostino, Michael Bennett D'Agostino, Bryan Michael Minor, Tamas Frajka, Michel Francois Pettigrew