Patents Assigned to Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Hokuriku
  • Blood-compatible material of a supramolecular structure
    Patent number: 6037387
    Abstract: A platelet metabolism suppressing blood compatible material has a supramolecular structure containing a plurality of cyclic compounds and a hydrophilic straight-chain polymer threading into cavities of the cyclic compounds. Both terminals of the polymer are respectively capped with biodegradable groups having bulks sufficient to prevent the dethreading of the cyclic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Hokuriku
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Yui, Minoru Terano, Hideharu Mori
  • Character recognition method and apparatus based on 0-1 pattern representation of histogram of character image
    Patent number: 5926564
    Abstract: Predetermined recognition units are extracted from an input document image. Histograms are prepared based on the extracted recognition units. By partially collating a 0-1 pattern representation extracted from the prepared histograms of each recognition unit with 0-1 pattern representations of respective recognition target categories, which are prepared in advance, candidates of recognition target categories corresponding to the recognition unit are retrieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Hokuriku
    Inventor: Masayuki Kimura