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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 09, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
James D Allen, J. Uthai Thani, TH;
Assignees:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Corporation, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382239 ; 382224 ;
Abstract
A method of generating a collaborative judgment for use in coding a symbol is described. One method includes generating multiple probability estimates for a symbol to be coded, selecting an exaggeration exponent and weighting information indicative of weighting between the probability estimates, and combining the probability estimates into the collaborative probability estimate based on an exaggeration function using the exaggeration exponent and the weighting information.