Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1996-03-01
1999-08-03
Feild, Joseph H.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707530, G06F 1730
Patent
active
059338237
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for querying a document image database based on texture, i.e., analytically discernable patterns in the document images of the database. According to the invention, a document image database could be browsed for documents with a particular texture in a variety of ways. For example, a user could input an example document image with a similar appearance to the desired document. Alternatively, the user could employ a simple interface to define a synthetic document based on selection of a few categories. The synthetic document would then serve as an example for search. Or the user may employ a graphical interface to more precisely define an example for search. Thus, the user's knowledge of the general appearance of the desired document or documents provides the basis for the search.
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Cullen John
Hart Peter
Hull Jonathan
Feild Joseph H.
Ricoh Company Limited
Ricoh Corporation
Young John L.
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