Owner Microsoft Corporation

Inventors Lin, Zhouchen; Li, Yantao; Xu, Zun; Wang, Jian

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2004210502

Priority 60505867 24.09.03 US; 10850718 20.05.04 US

Filing date 7 September 2004

Wipo publication date 7 April 2005

Acceptance publication date 28 October 2010

G06T 7/60 (2006.01) Image analysis, e.g. from bit-mapped to non bit-mapped - Analysis of geometric attributes, e.g. area, centre of gravity, perimeter, from an image

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 9/46 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints - Extraction of features or characteristics of the image

G06K 11/00 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for graph-reading or for converting the pattern of mechanical parameters, e.g. force or presence, into electrical signals