Patents by Inventor Yumiko Ikemure

Yumiko Ikemure 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).

  • Method and apparatus for recognizing table and figure having many lateral and longitudinal lines
    Patent number: 5502777
    Abstract: There is disclosed method and apparatus for recognizing a table and a figure drawn in a recognized document even though there are many intersections formed on each of lateral and longitudinal lines drawn in the figure. Figures and tables drawn in the recognized are read, and circumscribed rectangles circumscribed about the figures and the tables are detected. A circumscribed rectangle in which a larger value between the number of lateral lines and the number of longitudinal lines is not higher than a prescribed value or a maximum value among intersection numbers which each correspond to the number of intersections formed on one of the lateral and longitudinal lines is not higher than a prescribed value is extracted as a circumscribed figure-rectangle circumscribed about one of the figures. A circumscribed rectangle in which a ratio of the number N.sub.P1 of black pixels composing lateral lines and longitudinal lines to the number N.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yumiko Ikemure