Patents by Inventor Katsuhiko Kondoh

Katsuhiko Kondoh 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).

  • Patent number: 11605219
    Abstract: An image-processing device includes: a character string detection unit configured to detect a character string of a specific item in a first document image based on a feature amount of the displayed first document image among feature amounts which are recorded in advance based on a result of learning using a plurality of document images and indicate features of the character string of the item for each kind of document image and each specific item; and an output unit configured to output information regarding a correspondence relation indicating the same specific item between the first document image and a second document image displayed to correspond to the first document image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Nakatani, Katsuhiko Kondoh, Satoshi Segawa, Michiru Sugimoto, Yasushi Hidaka, Junya Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11514700
    Abstract: An image-processing device includes: a reliability calculation unit configured to calculate reliability of a character recognition result for a document image which is a character recognition target on the basis of a descriptive feature amount of a character string of a specific item included in the document image; and an image output unit configured to output an image of the character recognition result indicating the character string of the specific item in a display mode in accordance with the reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiru Sugimoto, Katsuhiko Kondoh, Yuichi Nakatani, Junya Akiyama, Satoshi Segawa, Yasushi Hidaka
  • Patent number: 11482029
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an identifying unit that identifies a plurality of character strings that are candidates for a recording character string among a plurality of character strings acquired by recognizing characters included in a document image; an output unit that outputs a checking screen that represents positions of the plurality of character strings; and a feature quantity extracting unit that extracts a feature quantity of a character string corresponding to a position identified by a user on the checking screen as a feature quantity of the recording character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondoh, Yasushi Hidaka, Satoshi Segawa, Yuichi Nakatani, Michiru Sugimoto, Junya Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11328504
    Abstract: An image-processing device includes: a reliability calculation unit configured to calculate reliability of a character recognition result on a document image which is a character recognition target on the basis of a feature amount of a character string of a specific item included in the document image; and an output destination selection unit configured to select an output destination of the character recognition result in accordance with the reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Nakatani, Katsuhiko Kondoh, Satoshi Segawa, Michiru Sugimoto, Yasushi Hidaka, Junya Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11321936
    Abstract: An image processing device including: a first feature quantity selecting unit configured to select a first feature quantity of a document image that is a character recognition target among first feature quantities that are recoded in advance and represent features of character strings of an item; a character recognition processing unit configured to perform a character recognition process for the document image; a character string selecting unit configured to select a character string of a specific item corresponding to the first feature quantity among the character strings acquired as a result of the character recognition process; and a determination result acquiring unit configured to acquire a determination result indicating whether or not a character string that has been input in advance matches the character string of the specific item in a case in which the character string selecting unit has not selected any one of the character strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondoh, Satoshi Segawa, Yuichi Nakatani, Michiru Sugimoto, Yasushi Hidaka, Junya Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20210192200
    Abstract: An image-processing device includes: a reliability calculation unit configured to calculate reliability of a character recognition result for a document image which is a character recognition target on the basis of a descriptive feature amount of a character string of a specific item included in the document image; and an image output unit configured to output an image of the character recognition result indicating the character string of the specific item in a display mode in accordance with the reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiru SUGIMOTO, Katsuhiko KONDOH, Yuichi NAKATANI, Junya AKIYAMA, Satoshi SEGAWA, Yasushi HIDAKA
  • Publication number: 20210142083
    Abstract: An image-processing device includes: a character string detection unit configured to detect a character string of a specific item in a first document image based on a feature amount of the displayed first document image among feature amounts which are recorded in advance based on a result of learning using a plurality of document images and indicate features of the character string of the item for each kind of document image and each specific item; and an output unit configured to output information regarding a correspondence relation indicating the same specific item between the first document image and a second document image displayed to correspond to the first document image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi NAKATANI, Katsuhiko KONDOH, Satoshi SEGAWA, Michiru SUGIMOTO, Yasushi HIDAKA, Junya AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210049394
    Abstract: An image-processing device includes: a reliability calculation unit configured to calculate reliability of a character recognition result on a document image which is a character recognition target on the basis of a feature amount of a character string of a specific item included in the document image; and an output destination selection unit configured to select an output destination of the character recognition result in accordance with the reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi NAKATANI, Katsuhiko KONDOH, Satoshi SEGAWA, Michiru SUGIMOTO, Yasushi HIDAKA, Junya AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210027052
    Abstract: An image-processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire form image data generated as an optical reading result of a form image; a group-specifying unit configured to determine whether kinds of groups into which the form image data is grouped are specifiable; and a work target determination unit configured to determine that the form image data is the form image data on which checking work for the kinds of groups is required when the kinds of groups of the form image data are determined to be unspecifiable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi NAKATANI, Katsuhiko KONDOH, Satoshi SEGAWA, Michiru SUGIMOTO, Yasushi HIDAKA, Junya AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210012138
    Abstract: An image processing device including: a first feature quantity selecting unit configured to select a first feature quantity of a document image that is a character recognition target among first feature quantities that are recoded in advance and represent features of character strings of an item; a character recognition processing unit configured to perform a character recognition process for the document image; a character string selecting unit configured to select a character string of a specific item corresponding to the first feature quantity among the character strings acquired as a result of the character recognition process; and a determination result acquiring unit configured to acquire a determination result indicating whether or not a character string that has been input in advance matches the character string of the specific item in a case in which the character string selecting unit has not selected any one of the character strings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDOH, Satoshi SEGAWA, Yuichi NAKATANI, Michiru SUGIMOTO, Yasushi HIDAKA, Junya AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210012104
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an identifying unit that identifies a plurality of character strings that are candidates for a recording character string among a plurality of character strings acquired by recognizing characters included in a document image; an output unit that outputs a checking screen that represents positions of the plurality of character strings; and a feature quantity extracting unit that extracts a feature quantity of a character string corresponding to a position identified by a user on the checking screen as a feature quantity of the recording character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KONDOH, Yasushi HIDAKA, Satoshi SEGAWA, Yuichi NAKATANI, Michiru SUGIMOTO, Junya AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 8401310
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image comparing method for comparing plural first images and a second image, includes: converting the second image to generate a second numerical data; dividing each of plural first numerical data corresponding to the plural first images into plural parts, and dividing the second numerical data into plural parts; comparing a first part of the divided parts of the plural first numerical data and a first part of the divided parts of the second numerical data; outputting a first result, when the first part of the divided parts of the plural first numerical data satisfies a first condition; and comparing a second part of the divided parts of the plural first numerical data and a second part of the divided parts of the second numerical data, when the first part of the divided parts of the plural first numerical data satisfies a second condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kondoh, Daisuke Nishiwaki
  • Publication number: 20120140980
    Abstract: An image processing device of the present invention is an image processing device that reads an address of a piece of mail, comprising: a storage section that correlatively stores image data of the piece of mail containing an address region in which the address of said piece of mail is present and region data that represent a position of said address region of the piece of mail; an obtaining section that obtains image data of said piece of mail; a search section that searches said storage section for image data that match the image data obtained by said obtaining section with respect to regions other than said address region; an extraction section that extracts a region represented by region data correlated with image data retrieved by said search section as an address region of said piece of mail from the image data obtained by said obtaining section; and a read section that reads an address from the address region extracted by said extraction section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Nishiwaki, Katsuhiko Kondoh
  • Publication number: 20090154767
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image comparing method for comparing plural first images and a second image, includes: converting the second image to generate a second numerical data; dividing each of plural first numerical data corresponding to the plural first images into plural parts, and dividing the second numerical data into plural parts; comparing a first part of the divided parts of the plural first numerical data and a first part of the divided parts of the second numerical data; outputting a first result, when the first part of the divided parts of the plural first numerical data satisfies a first condition; and comparing a second part of the divided parts of the plural first numerical data and a second part of the divided parts of the second numerical data, when the first part of the divided parts of the plural first numerical data satisfies a second condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: KATSUHIKO KONDOH, DAISUKE NISHIWAKI