Abstract: Vehicles and other items often have corresponding documentation, such as registration cards, that includes a significant amount of informative textual information that can be used in identifying the item. Traditional OCR may be unsuccessful when dealing with non-cooperative images. Accordingly, features such as dewarping, text alignment, and line identification and removal may aid in OCR of non-cooperative images. Dewarping involves determining curvature of a document depicted in an image and processing the image to dewarp the image of the document to make it more accurately conform to the ideal of a cooperative image. Text alignment involves determining an actual alignment of depicted text, even when the depicted text is not aligned with depicted visual cues. Line identification and removal involves identifying portions of the image that depict lines and removing those lines prior to OCR processing of the image.

Abstract: Vehicles and other items often have corresponding documentation, such as registration cards, that includes a significant amount of informative textual information that can be used in identifying the item. Traditional OCR may be unsuccessful when dealing with non-cooperative images. Accordingly, features such as dewarping, text alignment, and line identification and removal may aid in OCR of non-cooperative images. Dewarping involves determining curvature of a document depicted in an image and processing the image to dewarp the image of the document to make it more accurately conform to the ideal of a cooperative image. Text alignment involves determining an actual alignment of depicted text, even when the depicted text is not aligned with depicted visual cues. Line identification and removal involves identifying portions of the image that depict lines and removing those lines prior to OCR processing of the image.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to UI systems and processes including methods for controlling text position in a computer display. A target word in a body of text may be maintained in position by forward rendering and backward rendering, iteratively as the text is modified by the addition or deletion of words or by modifications affecting height or width of a word.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to UI systems and processes including rendering of text in a combination of styles and sizes to a computer graphics display. Text may be rendered with one or more emphases to modify style, size, and weight according to emphases weightings and or relative positions of text to be emphasized.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to UI systems and processes including methods for controlling text position in a computer display. A target word in a body of text may be maintained in position by forward rendering and backward rendering, iteratively as the text is modified by the addition or deletion of words or by modifications affecting height or width of a word.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to UI systems and processes including rendering of text in a combination of styles and sizes to a computer graphics display. Text may be rendered with one or more emphases to modify style, size, and weight according to emphases weightings and or relative positions of text to be emphasized.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to UI systems and processes including methods for displaying on a computer display information about electronic documents matching selection criteria. Summary information may appear in representative bubbles that can be smoothly panned and zoomed, with amounts of detail changing in proportion to the size of the bubbles. In a small size, an image extracted from the document, if any, may be displayed. In one size, keywords identified by NLP and NER algorithms can be added. In another size, a document summary can be shown. In another size, a full-text view a scrollable widow or iframe displays the document within the bubble. Bubbles may be clumped by various criteria including topic, age, popularity, and so on. Bubbles may use colors to indicate topic, age, language, or document source. User-viewed bubbles may be deemphasized after the user has view them.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to UI systems and processes including methods for displaying on a computer display information about electronic documents matching selection criteria. Summary information may appear in representative bubbles that can be smoothly panned and zoomed, with amounts of detail changing in proportion to the size of the bubbles. In a small size, an image extracted from the document, if any, may be displayed. In one size, keywords identified by NLP and NER algorithms can be added. In another size, a document summary can be shown. In another size, a full-text view a scrollable widow or iframe displays the document within the bubble. Bubbles may be clumped by various criteria including topic, age, popularity, and so on. Bubbles may use colors to indicate topic, age, language, or document source. User-viewed bubbles may be deemphasized after the user has view them.

Abstract: Vehicles and other items often have corresponding documentation, such as registration cards, that includes a significant amount of informative textual information that can be used in identifying the item. Traditional OCR may be unsuccessful when dealing with non-cooperative images. Accordingly, features such as dewarping, text alignment, and line identification and removal may aid in OCR of non-cooperative images. Dewarping involves determining curvature of a document depicted in an image and processing the image to dewarp the image of the document to make it more accurately conform to the ideal of a cooperative image. Text alignment involves determining an actual alignment of depicted text, even when the depicted text is not aligned with depicted visual cues. Line identification and removal involves identifying portions of the image that depict lines and removing those lines prior to OCR processing of the image.

Abstract: Vehicles and other items often have corresponding documentation, such as registration cards, that includes a significant amount of informative textual information that can be used in identifying the item. Traditional OCR may be unsuccessful when dealing with non-cooperative images. Accordingly, features such as dewarping, text alignment, and line identification and removal may aid in OCR of non-cooperative images. Dewarping involves determining curvature of a document depicted in an image and processing the image to dewarp the image of the document to make it more accurately conform to the ideal of a cooperative image. Text alignment involves determining an actual alignment of depicted text, even when the depicted text is not aligned with depicted visual cues. Line identification and removal involves identifying portions of the image that depict lines and removing those lines prior to OCR processing of the image.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating prompts for further data from a user in a multi-turn interactive dialog. Embodiments improve searches for the most relevant items available for purchase in an electronic marketplace via a processed sequence of user inputs and machine-generated prompts. Question type prompts, validating statement type prompts, and recommendation type prompts may be selectively generated based on whether a user query has been sufficiently specified, user intent is ambiguous, or a search mission has changed. Detection of a new dominant object denotes search mission change. Contextual associations between prompts and user replies are maintained, but a search mission change results in previous context data being disregarded.

Abstract: Systems and methods for selecting types of generated prompts for further data from a user in a multi-turn interactive dialog. In one scenario, a processed sequence of user inputs and machine-generated prompts improves searches for the most relevant items available for purchase in an electronic marketplace. The number of prompts may be limited to a predetermined maximum value. Prompt generation is minimized by incorporating into a knowledge graph world knowledge that helps user intent inference. Prompt generation may be suppressed if a search indicates the reply to a prompt will not lead to any satisfactory search results. Prompts can provide suggestions for available search results that either meet all query constraints, or meet only some query constraints if a search indicates no search results are available that meet all query constraints. Prompts can provide suggested incisive reply phrasing likely to improve search results through an affirmation or negation reply.

Abstract: Vehicles and other items often have corresponding documentation, such as registration cards, that includes a significant amount of informative textual information that can be used in identifying the item. Traditional OCR may be unsuccessful when dealing with non-cooperative images. Accordingly, features such as dewarping, text alignment, and line identification and removal may aid in OCR of non-cooperative images. Dewarping involves determining curvature of a document depicted in an image and processing the image to dewarp the image of the document to make it more accurately conform to the ideal of a cooperative image. Text alignment involves determining an actual alignment of depicted text, even when the depicted text is not aligned with depicted visual cues. Line identification and removal involves identifying portions of the image that depict lines and removing those lines prior to OCR processing of the image.

Abstract: A system for visual encoding of words to assist learning to read including systematic variations in the appearance of letters which may look like morphic analogs of the sound variations they suggest (for example, barely visible grey for silent letters). By improving how letters cue sounds (like the alphabet originally did), visual encoding reduces the cognitive processing work that most impedes and endangers the progress of beginning and struggling readers (disambiguating letter-sound relationship confusion).

Abstract: An advanced video teleconferencing system facilitates an engaging and realistic video conferencing experience. Key design elements and video, audio, and control capabilities are provided for a video conferencing experience that cannot be attained with conventional methods, which elements and capabilities include careful design of the table and room at each site, supplementary displays showing imagery in a mirrored manner, networked environmental control, an AutoDirector with keyword and gesture recognition, and audio reflection from a display or beam splitter.

Abstract: An advanced video teleconferencing system facilitates an engaging and realistic video conferencing experience. Key design elements and video, audio, and control capabilities are provided for a video conferencing experience that cannot be attained with conventional methods, which elements and capabilities include careful design of the table and room at each site, supplementary displays showing imagery in a mirrored manner, networked environmental control, an AutoDirector with keyword and gesture recognition, and audio reflection from a display or beam splitter.

Abstract: An advanced video teleconferencing system facilitates an engaging and realistic video conferencing experience. Key design elements and video, audio, and control capabilities are provided for a video conferencing experience that cannot be attained with conventional methods, which elements and capabilities include careful design of the table and room at each site, supplementary displays showing imagery in a mirrored manner, networked environmental control, an AutoDirector with keyword and gesture recognition, and audio reflection from a display or beam splitter.

Abstract: Visualization of relatively complex data sets and the simultaneous synchronization of such data sets across both a network and to different areas having different capabilities is disclosed, especially in connection with session structure, synchronization, synchronized control of imagery, and restoring synchronization to a predefined tour.

Abstract: An advanced video teleconferencing system facilitates an engaging and realistic video conferencing experience. Key design elements and video, audio, and control capabilities are provided for a video conferencing experience that cannot be attained with conventional methods, which elements and capabilities include careful design of the table and room at each site, supplementary displays showing imagery in a mirrored manner, networked environmental control, an AutoDirector with keyword and gesture recognition, and audio reflection from a display or beam splitter.

Abstract: An advanced video teleconferencing system facilitates an engaging and realistic video conferencing experience. Key design elements and video, audio, and control capabilities are provided for a video conferencing experience that cannot be attained with conventional methods, which elements and capabilities include careful design of the table and room at each site, supplementary displays showing imagery in a mirrored manner, networked environmental control, an AutoDirector with keyword and gesture recognition, and audio reflection from a display or beam splitter.