Patents Assigned to Teraform Inc.
  • Method and apparatus for locating and identifying fields within a document
    Patent number: 5852676
    Abstract: A document to be processed is scanned into a machine readable image. The image is segmented into a plurality of fields. Predetermined characteristics are measured for each field and the set of characteristics is correlated with a predetermined set of characteristics derived from a reference image. The fields with the highest degree of correlation to the characteristics from the reference document are selected for further processing, e.g., optical character recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Teraform Inc.
    Inventor: Theodore G. Lazar