Patents by Inventor E. Derek Rowley

E. Derek Rowley 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 OF MASSIVE PARALLEL PATTERN MATCHING AGAINST A PROGRESSIVELY-EXHAUSTIVE KNOWLEDGE BASE OF PATTERNS
    Publication number: 20130159598
    Abstract: A method of pattern and image recognition and identification includes building a data store of known patterns or images having known attributes and comparing those patterns to unknown patterns. The data store and comparison processing may be distributed across processors. A digital pattern recognition engine on each of the processors has the ability to compare a known pattern from the data store and an unknown pattern and compare the two patterns to determine whether the patterns constitute a match based on match criteria. If the comparison indicates a match, the match may be communicated to the data store and added as a known pattern with detected attributes to the data store. If the comparison does not indicate a match, the pattern may be flagged, transmitted to manual recognition, or further processed using character thresholding or cutting or slicing the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen G. Huntington, Bevan S. Rowley, E. Derek Rowley
  • Method of massive parallel pattern matching against a progressively-exhaustive knowledge base of patterns
    Patent number: 8391609
    Abstract: A method of pattern and image recognition and identification includes building a data store of known patterns or images having known attributes and comparing those patterns to unknown patterns. The data store and comparison processing may be distributed across processors. A digital pattern recognition engine on each of the processors has the ability to compare a known pattern from the data store and an unknown pattern and compare the two patterns to determine whether the patterns constitute a match based on match criteria. If the comparison indicates a match, the match may be communicated to the data store and added as a known pattern with detected attributes to the data store. If the comparison does not indicate a match, the pattern may be flagged, transmitted to manual recognition, or further processed using character thresholding or cutting or slicing the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen G. Huntington, Bevan Rowley, E Derek Rowley
  • Method of Massive Parallel Pattern Matching against a Progressively-Exhaustive Knowledge Base of Patterns
    Publication number: 20100215277
    Abstract: A method of pattern and image recognition and identification includes building a data store of known patterns or images having known attributes and comparing those patterns to unknown patterns. The data store and comparison processing may be distributed across processors. A digital pattern recognition engine on each of the processors has the ability to compare a known pattern from the data store and an unknown pattern and compare the two patterns to determine whether the patterns constitute a match based on match criteria. If the comparison indicates a match, the match is communicated to the data store and added as a known pattern with detected attributes to the data store. If the comparison does not indicate a match, the pattern may be flagged, transmitted to manual recognition, or further processed using character thresholding or cutting or slicing the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Stephen G. Huntington, Bevan Rowley, E. Derek Rowley
  • System and method for creating a searchable word index of a scanned document including multiple interpretations of a word at a given document location
    Patent number: 7240062
    Abstract: Multiple recognition engines (110) provide different interpretations (116) of a word at a given location within a scanned document (108). A word node corresponding to each unique interpretation is stored within a word index (102), with each word node being linked to word nodes of previously and subsequently recognized words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: iArchives, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy L. Andersen, Frederick A. Zarndt, Robert B. Wille, Michael E. Rimer, Michael U. Bailey, G. Bret Millar, E. Derek Rowley