Owner Microsoft Corporation

Inventors Szilagyi, Zolton; Duncan, Richard; Sutanto, Herry; Landstad, Todd; Wakeam, Jamie; Wang, Haiyong; Kannapel, Timothy H; Raghupathy, Sashi; Turner, Jerome; Dresevic, Bodin

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2003262758

PCT Number PCT/US03/26171

PCT Pub. Number WO2005/029317

Filing date 21 August 2003

Wipo publication date 11 April 2005

Acceptance publication date 25 March 2010

G06F 9/00 (2006.01) Arrangements for programme control, e.g. control unit

G06F 13/12 (2006.01) Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units - using hardware independent of the central processor, e.g. channel or peripheral processor

G06F 17/20 (2006.01) Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions - Handling natural language data

G06F 17/24 (2006.01) Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions - Editing, e.g. insert/delete

G06K 9/00 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints

G06K 9/20 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints - Image acquisition

G06K 9/22 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints - using hand-held instruments