DISTINGUISHING TEXT FROM NON-TEXT IN DIGITAL INK

Patent №

US 7,496,232

Granted

2009-02-24

Filed 2004

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · nlp · vision · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10874854

A discriminative machine learning system for labels text and non-text strokes in digital ink. The learning system considers stroke features and the context of the strokes, such as temporal information about one or more strokes, in a probabilistic framework. The learning system can also consider gap features within the probabilistic framework to label associated strokes.

AI classification

Vision1.00
Machine learning1.00
AI hardware1.00
Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation0.88
Speech0.00
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 155120512

Assignors

BISHOP, CHRISTOPHER M., SVENSEN, JOHAN FREDRIK MARKUS, HINTON, GEOFFREY

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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