Patents by Inventor Stéphane Berche

Stéphane Berche 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 and apparatus for generating a halftoned image from a compressed image
    Patent number: 8005305
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for generating a halftoned image from an image compressed by a domain transformation yielding coefficients for resulting domain components and by a coding operation by which these coefficients are coded. The method includes performing a decoding operation by which decoded coefficients (yp) are obtained and performing a thresholding operation by which a bitmap is obtained, wherein only certain decoded coefficients (yp) verifying a selection criterion are selected and taken into account in the thresholding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Oce-Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Cédric Sibade, Stéphane Berche
  • Method of recognizing and indexing documents
    Patent number: 7319799
    Abstract: A method of recognizing and indexing documents, using a scanner connected to a computer, the method including scanning the documents, then using a pointing device or member of the computer to designate an arbitrary point P in at least one box of the documents, and finally recognizing by OCR the characters in the box so as to store them in a first database connected to the computer to enable documents scanned in this way to be indexed. The designation step comprises a step of searching for and identifying the box of the document containing the point P designated by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Océ-Industries S.A.
    Inventors: Stéphane Berche, Laurent Najman