Patents by Inventor Stephen A. Mortinger

Stephen A. Mortinger 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).

  • Publication number: 20020120653
    Abstract: A system for resizing text contained in an image can include a browser for displaying a hypermedia document; an extractor/separator for identifying images in the hypermedia document; a filter for identifying text portions of the identified images; an optical character recognition (OCR) system for processing the identified text portions, the OCR system producing recognized text; and, a user interface for displaying the recognized text concurrently with the display of the hypermedia document in the browser. The system can further include a text-to-speech (TTS) conversion system for converting the recognized text to audible speech; and, an audio user interface (AUI) for presenting the TTS audible speech concurrently with the display of the hypermedia document in the browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2001
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Reiner Kraft, Stephen A. Mortinger