Patents by Inventor Glenn E. Host

Glenn E. Host 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 of fusing the outputs of multiple intelligent character recognition (ICR) systems to reduce error rate
    Patent number: 5970171
    Abstract: An ICR fuser includes a set of fusion rules for combining the outputs of multiple ICR systems. Each ICR system operates on a digital image to extract image component strings and provide a set of multiple candidate character strings and their associated confidence values. Each rule includes a test for determining whether that rule applies to the current ICR system outputs, a membership function for selecting a fused character string, and a confidence equation for assigning it a fused confidence value. The rules partition a decision space into subspaces to reduce the error rate between the fused character string and the image component string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: Gregory A. Baraghimian, Glenn E. Host