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Kouichirou Hirao
Also filed as: HIRAO KOUICHIROU
10 granted patents·222 citations·filing 1997–2007
89Inventor score
Files withNEC CORP10
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10 records- 0186US6016361AMethod and apparatus for compressing binary data using pattern matching encodingNEC CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Jan 18, 2000·102 cites·19 claims
- 0267US6327384B1Character recognition apparatus and method for recognizing charactersNEC CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 4, 2001·76 cites·8 claims
- 0353US7139428B2Image encoder, image encoding method, recording medium and computer data signal embodied in a carrier waveNEC CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 21, 2006·4 cites·12 claims
- 0450US7945095B2Line segment detector and line segment detecting methodNEC CORP·Filed 2007·Granted May 17, 2011·1 cites·18 claims
- 0547US6122402APattern encoding and decoding method and encoder and decoder using the methodNEC CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Sep 19, 2000·13 cites·7 claims
- 0646US7664334B2Image encoder, image encoding method, recording medium and computer data signal embodied in a carrier waveNEC CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Feb 16, 2010·0 cites·10 claims
- 0746US6185330B1Device and record medium for pattern matching encoding/decoding of binary still imagesNEC CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 6, 2001·12 cites·20 claims
- 0837US5999704AImage output apparatusNEC CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 7, 1999·6 cites·20 claims
- 0934US6553144B1Coding method and coding apparatus for bi-level document imageNEC CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 22, 2003·6 cites·11 claims
- 1030US6574367B1Method and apparatus for pattern matching encodingNEC CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 3, 2003·2 cites·14 claims
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