Patents by Inventor Shigeru Mizuhara

Shigeru Mizuhara has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus and method for recognizing characters
    Patent number: 5410612
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for recognizing characters in image information includes inputting image coordinate data corresponding to the handwritten image, displaying a calligraphic image on the basis of the image coordinate data, recognizing characters in the image coordinate data, and erasing the calligraphic image and displaying recognized characters recognized in the recognizing step in the event that a recognized character is a predetermined character such as a period (".").
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsunekazu Arai, Shigeru Mizuhara, Yoshihiro Oguchi, Kazutoshi Shimada, Kiyoshi Kaneko, Katsuyuki Kobayashi, Masaki Tokioka