US5926565A
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Computer method for processing records with images and multiple fonts
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1992-09-24
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Granted: 1999-07-20
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Expires: 2012-09-24
Abstract
Abstract A sequence of documents is delivered to an optical scanner in which each document is scanned to form a digital image representation of the content of the document. The image representation is automatically examined by data processing apparatus to select search words which meet predetermined criteria and by which the document can be subsequently located. The search words are stored in a non-volatile memory and the entire document content is stored in mass storage in image form. A font table is established and images of entered search words are constructed from the table. Unrecognized or imperfectly formed ambiguous characters are stored with the font table and are used in the construction of search words to ease or eliminate text editing or are stored with converted characters of search words. The approach can also be used to ease or eliminate editing of full text-converted data bases during input.
Inventors
- 👤 Horst Froessl
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 22:58
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F16/00; G06F16/90; G06F16/93; G06F16/40
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
97 words
A computer-implemented method of preparing for storage and retrieval data from source documents comprising the steps of establishing in computer memory stored patterns of electrical signals forming lexicons of images of characters in at least one font, comparing signals representative of images of characters from the source documents with stored signals representative of images of characters in the lexicons, identifying signals representative of images of characters for which no match is found as ambiguous characters; and storing the signals representative of images of ambiguous characters for use in retrieval of documents in which the ambiguous characters appeared.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
97 words
A computer-implemented method of preparing for storage and retrieval data from source documents comprising the steps of establishing in computer memory stored patterns of electrical signals forming lexicons of images of characters in at least one font, comparing signals representative of images of characters from the source documents with stored signals representative of images of characters in the lexicons, identifying signals representative of images of characters for which no match is found as ambiguous characters; and storing the signals representative of images of ambiguous characters for use in retrieval of documents in which the ambiguous characters appeared.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
59 words
A computer-implemented method according to claim 1 and including establishing in computer memory stored patterns of signals forming lexicons of images of words, and comparing patterns of signals representing images of character groups from the stored documents with stored patterns of signals representing words in the lexicon to identify those character groups which can and cannot be acceptable words.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
27 words
A computer-implemented method according to claim 1 and including selectively converting into code only those signals representing groups of characters which are detected as containing ambiguous characters.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
29 words
A computer-implemented method according to claim 3 and including storing in image signals representative of any group of characters for which selective conversion is attempted and is not successful.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
24 words
A computer-implemented method according to claim 4 wherein the source documents include previously stored signals representing images of digitized patterns of material from documents.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
110 words
A computer-implemented method of calculating using signals representative of data from source documents comprising the steps of establishing in computer memory stored patterns of electrical signals forming lexicons of images of characters in at least one font, the characters including letters and numerals, comparing signals representative of images of characters from the source documents with stored signals representative of images of characters represented by signals in the lexicons, identifying signals representative of images of characters which represent numerals, assigning a value to signals representing each numeral found correlated with the signals representing the image of the numeral, and using the signals representing the images of the numerals to perform calculations.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
110 words
A computer-implemented method of calculating using signals representative of data from source documents comprising the steps of establishing in computer memory stored patterns of electrical signals forming lexicons of images of characters in at least one font, the characters including letters and numerals, comparing signals representative of images of characters from the source documents with stored signals representative of images of characters represented by signals in the lexicons, identifying signals representative of images of characters which represent numerals, assigning a value to signals representing each numeral found correlated with the signals representing the image of the numeral, and using the signals representing the images of the numerals to perform calculations.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
46 words
A computer-implemented method according to claim 6 wherein the lexicon includes signals representative of images of numerals wherein the signals are assigned to specific slot locations in memory, each slot location having a known value, and wherein the calculations are performed by using the slot values.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
19 words
A computer-implemented method according to claim 6 wherein the calculations are performed by using code values for the numerals.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
89 words
A computer-implemented method of editing data from source documents comprising the steps of establishing in computer memory stored patterns of signals forming lexicons of images of characters in at least one font, the characters including letters and numerals, comparing signals representative of images of characters from the source documents with stored signals representative of images of characters in the lexicons, identifying signals representing images of characters which represent numerals, and displaying only the characters representing numerals for human review and storing signals representative of other characters without human review.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
89 words
A computer-implemented method of editing data from source documents comprising the steps of establishing in computer memory stored patterns of signals forming lexicons of images of characters in at least one font, the characters including letters and numerals, comparing signals representative of images of characters from the source documents with stored signals representative of images of characters in the lexicons, identifying signals representing images of characters which represent numerals, and displaying only the characters representing numerals for human review and storing signals representative of other characters without human review.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
23 words
A computer-implemented method according to claim 9 wherein the step of displaying includes displaying only the characters representing numerals which are ambiguous characters.
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