Patents by Inventor Misako Suwa

Misako Suwa 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).

  • Handwritten character recognition apparatus and method using a clustering algorithm
    Patent number: 6345119
    Abstract: For a plurality of handwritten characters extracted from an input image, a character category for each character is first determined by a character recognition process. Second, according to a clustering process, similarity levels of character-forms among extracted characters are determined, and based on the determination result, the character category determination result from the first character recognition process is modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2002
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Hotta, Satoshi Naoi, Misako Suwa
  • Pattern recognizing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 6335986
    Abstract: An environment recognizing unit extracts the first through N-th states from an input image and calls data corresponding to the first through N-th states from the first through N-th pattern recognizing units to perform a recognizing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Naoi, Misako Suwa, Yoshinobu Hotta
  • Pattern recognizing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 6104833
    Abstract: An environment recognizing unit extracts the first through N-th states from an input image and calls data corresponding to the first through N-th states from the first through N-th pattern recognizing units to perform a recognizing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Naoi, Misako Suwa, Yoshinobu Hotta