Method and apparatus for improved information transactions

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8892906
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13198653

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Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at least the selected regions in accordance with a textual relationship between the selected regions. The desired order may be related to the order in which the selected regions, and or words therein, are to be presented in a different format appropriate for a specific use, such by a human reader, for transferring the text over a network, for use in a database or by a search function, word processor or printer. Normalizing, columnizing, regionalizing, frameset building and article tracing functions may be used to develop the desired order in related regions in an article within the image.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Abrams, Ken Campbell, US 3 56
Holzgrafe, Richard M San Jose, US 5 116
Nolan, Jay C Sunnyvale, US 5 116
Santos, Tom J San Jose, US 7 238
Warnock, Christopher M Los Altos, US 5 116

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