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Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Mathematical Expression Recognizing Device
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 21, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 21 -- Kazuaki Yokota and Yuko Eto, both of Tokyo, and Masakazu Suzuki of Fukoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken, Japan, have developed a mathematical expression recognizing device, a mathematical expression recognizing method, a character recognizing device and a character recognizing method.
An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A mathematical expression recognizing device comprises a character recognition unit which recognizes characters in a document image, a dictionary storing a pair of evaluation scores for each type of word, the score showing the possibility of belonging to the text and that of belonging to the mathematical ...