Inventor

Dan S. Bloomberg

Inventor

Palo Alto, CA, US

Overview

1987–2014

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 61 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Vprimary

G06VImage or video recognition or understanding45%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television15%

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general11%

G06FElectric digital data processing10%

G06KGraphical data reading9%

G11BInformation storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer2%

B41MPrinting, duplicating, marking, or copying processes1%

G03GElectrography1%

G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes1%

G07DHandling of coins or valuable papers, e.g. testing, sorting by denominations, counting, dispensing, changing or depositing1%

PatentTitleYear

8,910,037'Comparing text pages using image features based on word positions'2014 8,151,187'Comparing text pages using image features based on word positions'2012 8,151,186'Comparing text pages using image features based on word positions'2012 7,899,249'Media material analysis of continuing article portions'2011 7,801,358'Methods and systems for analyzing data in media material having layout'2010 7,489,830'Methods for generating anti-aliased text and line graphics in compressed document images'2009 7,469,059'Reorganization of raw image data for processing'2008 7,266,250'Methods for generating anti-aliased text and line graphics in compressed document images'2007 6,983,084'Method of aligning page images'2006 6,952,803'Method and system for transcribing and editing using a structured freeform editor'2005 RE038758'Self-clocking glyph shape codes'2005 6,904,170'Method and system for document segmentation'2005 6,738,518'Document image decoding using text line column-based heuristic scoring'2004 6,678,415'Document image decoding using an integrated stochastic language model'2004 6,641,051'System for embedded digital data that allows embedding of data around known obstructions'2003 6,594,393'Dynamic programming operation with skip mode for text line image decoding'2003 6,439,465'Encoding small amounts of embedded digital data at arbitrary locations within an image'2002 6,427,920'High frequency masking of embedded digital data to improve appearance'2002 6,076,738'Self-clocking glyph shape codes'2000 5,943,679'Multi-page document viewer having a focus image and recursively nested images of varying resolutions less than the resolution of the focus image'1999 5,892,842'Automatic method of identifying sentence boundaries in a document image'1999 5,862,255'Broad bandwidth image domain communication channel with symbol interference suppression'1999 5,848,191'Automatic method of generating thematic summaries from a document image without performing character recognition'1998 5,828,771'Method and article of manufacture for determining whether a scanned image is an original image or fax image'1998 5,825,919'Technique for generating bounding boxes for word spotting in bitmap images'1998 5,765,176'Performing document image management tasks using an iconic image having embedded encoded information'1998 5,761,686'Embedding encoded information in an iconic version of a text image'1998 5,745,600'Word spotting in bitmap images using text line bounding boxes and hidden Markov models'1998 5,740,285'Image reduction/enlargement technique'1998 5,689,585'Method for aligning a text image to a transcription of the image'1997 5,619,592'Detection of highlighted regions'1997 5,572,601'Mark sensing on a form'1996 5,570,435'Segmentation of text styles'1996 5,491,760'Method and apparatus for summarizing a document without document image decoding'1996 5,486,686'Hardcopy lossless data storage and communications for electronic document processing systems'1996 5,467,410'Identification of a blank page in an image processing system'1995 5,455,871'Detecting function words without converting a scanned document to character codes'1995 5,438,630'Word spotting in bitmap images using word bounding boxes and hidden Markov models'1995 5,434,953'Use of fast textured reduction for discrimination of document image components'1995 5,418,865'Mark sensing on a form'1995 5,402,504'Segmentation of text styles'1995 5,390,259'Methods and apparatus for selecting semantically significant images in a document image without decoding image content'1995 5,384,863'Methods and apparatus for automatic modification of semantically significant portions of a document without document image decoding'1995 5,355,420'Method and apparatus for identification of document skew'1994 5,276,742'Rapid detection of page orientation'1994 5,272,764'Detection of highlighted regions'1993 5,202,933'Segmentation of text and graphics'1993 5,201,011'Method and apparatus for image hand markup detection using morphological techniques'1993 5,193,122'High speed halftone detection technique'1993 5,187,753'Method and apparatus for identification and correction of document skew'1993 5,181,255'Segmentation of handwriting and machine printed text'1993 5,168,147'Binary image processing for decoding self-clocking glyph shape codes'1992 5,157,726'Document copy authentication'1992 5,131,049'Identification, characterization, and segmentation of Halftone or stippled regions of binary images by growing a seed to a clipping mask'1992 5,129,014'Image registration'1992 5,128,525'Convolution filtering for decoding self-clocking glyph shape codes'1992 5,091,966'Adaptive scaling for decoding spatially periodic self-clocking glyph shape codes'1992 5,065,437'Identification and segmentation of finely textured and solid regions of binary images'1991 5,048,109'Detection of highlighted regions'1991 4,801,794'Data detection and optical focus error detection system for rotating optical media'1989 4,652,737'Sampled optical focus error detecting system for rotating optical media'1987

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1987–2009Patents assigned to XEROX CORP (52)· patent assignee history

1987–2014Based in Palo Alto, CA, US· patent location history

2008–2014Patents assigned to GOOGLE INC (6)· patent assignee history

2010–2011Based in Mountain View, CA, US· patent location history

2012–2014Patents assigned to BLOOMBERG DAN S (3)· patent assignee history

2012–2014Patents assigned to PONCIN GUILLAUME (3)· patent assignee history

2012–2014Patents assigned to SPASOJEVIC NEMANJA L (3)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
XEROX CORP	52	1987–2009
GOOGLE INC	6	2008–2014
BLOOMBERG DAN Sself	3	2012–2014
PONCIN GUILLAUME	3	2012–2014
SPASOJEVIC NEMANJA L	3	2012–2014

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Palo Alto, California, US	59	1987–2014
Mountain View, California, US	2	2010–2011