Patents by Inventor Ching Suen

Ching Suen 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 character recognition and program thereof
    Publication number: 20050053282
    Abstract: A character recognition apparatus has space storage to store Eigen spaces made from a plurality of rotated character images, loci storage to store loci drawn for projection points obtained by projecting the plurality of rotated character images in corresponding Eigen spaces; an input unit to input the recognition target images; a distance calculation unit to obtain distances between projection points obtained by projecting the recognition target images in Eigen space and respective loci for the plurality of character types, and a candidate selection unit to select candidates for images for recognition target characters from the plurality of character types based on the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Applicants: Japan as represented by The President of University of Fukui, PFU Limited
    Inventors: Ching Suen, Hiroyuki Hase, Hiroshi Kakutani