Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yoshihisa Ohguro

Hideo Ito

Satoshi Yamauchi

Masayuki Kameda

Takashi Katooka

Taisen Hayashi

Masumi Narita

Phyllis Anwyl

Sakiko Honma

Hiroko Yamagata

Ayako Oono

Rui Zhang

Yan Jiang

Tomofumi Harada

Toshifumi Yamaai

Yinghui Xu

A communication control system includes an attendance confirmation accepting unit that accepts confirmation of attendance according to an operation of an attendee to an information processing apparatus located at a conference room, a random number processor that generates a random number in case of accepting the confirmation of attendance and stores connection authentication information based on the random number in a memory, the connection authentication information being used for authenticating exchange of information with a terminal operated by the attendee at the conference, a print controller that transfers an output command for printing an image having the generated random number to an image forming apparatus, and a wireless connection controller that receives authentication information input by the terminal based on the random number via wireless communication at the conference room and authenticates the exchange of information with the terminal based on the connection authentication information stored in the memory.

Communication control system, communication control apparatus, and communication control method

Disclosed are a form template definition method and a form template definition apparatus. The form template definition method comprises a cell extraction step of analyzing an image of a form so as to extract one or more cells from the image of the form; a cell classification step of classifying the extracted cells; and a cell attribute definition step of defining attributes of the extracted cells class by class. If an attribute of a first cell in one class is defined, then other cells in the class automatically copy the attribute of the first cell. As a result, the work amount of form template definition may be dramatically reduced by employing the form template definition method and form template definition apparatus.

Form template definition method and form template definition apparatus

An image processing apparatus obtains image data containing a plurality of pieces of character information, obtains corresponding information that corresponds to the character information contained in the obtained image data, obtains, using the character information, area information indicating an area to which the corresponding information is to be inserted, and determines an insertion style of the corresponding information based on the obtained area information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program product for inserting information into in image data

When encoding each element in numeral string data, a code-string data creating unit creates code string data by assigning a code to a focused element to be encoded based on a magnitude relation between the focused element and an element adjacent to the focused element. An control unit stores primary data and the code string data as registration information in an associated manner into a storage unit. When searching for the primary data, a data extracting unit and the code-string data creating unit create code string data from image data, and a searching unit searches data stored in the storage unit based on the created code string data as search information for data having registration information that matches the search information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer product

An information processing apparatus for processing image data including character information, the processing of image data including a process of inserting interpretation information corresponding to the character information. The information processing apparatus includes an image data acquisition unit, an interpretation information retrieval unit, an area information definition unit, and an insertion style determination unit. The image data acquisition unit acquires the image data including the character information composed of a plurality of characters having a first string of characters. The interpretation information retrieval unit retrieves first interpretation information to be attached to the first string of characters. The area information definition unit computes insertable area information on a first insertable area, usable for inserting the first interpretation information, based on coordinate data of characters in the acquired image data. The insertion style determination unit determines an insertion style of the first interpretation information based on the insertable area information.

Information processing apparatus, method of processing information, control program, and recording medium

A data providing apparatus for providing search result information corresponding to-be-searched data including a search query includes a storing part storing the to-be-searched data which has been non-reversibly encoded according to a predetermined method, and the search result information to be provided as a search result with respect to the to-be-searched data, in association with each other. A converting part of the apparatus non-reversibly encodes the search query according to the same method as the predetermined method. An obtaining part of the apparatus obtains the search result information which is associated with the non-reversibly encoded to-be-searched data, with the use of the non-reversibly encoded search query. A providing part of the apparatus provides the thus-obtained search result information.

Data providing apparatus, data providing method and program

An apparatus and method for extracting a predetermined number of consecutive characters from a document image; converting the consecutive characters into a set of symbols using layout information obtained from the consecutive characters; and detecting an orientation of the consecutive characters using occurrence probabilities of the set of symbols.

Method and apparatus for detecting an orientation of characters in a document image

An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of detecting an orientation of characters in a document image are disclosed. The orientation of the characters is determined based on a detection result, which indicates the degree of similarity between a character line of the document image having a selected orientation and trained data of the upright position.

Detecting an orientation of characters in a document image

A language such as English or a language group such as an Asian language group is recognized based upon document image data. The document image data is processed to determine a minimal circumscribing rectangle for each character. The layout characteristics of the minimal circumscribing rectangles are quantified in a discrete number of ranges. The layout characteristic information includes a certain ratio with respect to the minimal circumscribing rectangle height and width as well as a black pixel density in the minimal circumscribing rectangle. Based upon the quantified layout characteristic information, an occurrence probability of a predetermined number of characters is determined using training data for a predetermined number of languages. The occurrence probability is stored in a table for later reference for an unknown input language.

Language recognition method, system and software

A language conversion system converts an original sentence in a source-language into a translated sentence in a target-language. The language conversion system includes a original analysis unit for analyzing the original sentence so as to obtain an intermediate structure of the original, an idea center extraction unit for extracting an idea center from the intermediate structure obtained by the original analysis unit, the idea center being a central expression of an idea to be described by a sentence, an identification unit for identifying a sentence pattern including the idea center extracted by the idea center extraction unit, an information extraction unit for extracting information required by the sentence pattern identified by the identification unit from the intermediate structure of the original sentence, a decision unit for deciding an intermediate structure of a translated sentence based on the sentence pattern and request information extracted by the information extraction unit, and a creation unit for creating a translated sentence in a surface level from the intermediate structure decided by the decision unit.

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Yoshihisa Ohguro