About IPT

Corporate Overview

Image Processing Technologies (IPT), a privately held company, was incorporated in June of 1988. A capital investment from MCT Investors LP, together with the transfer of the staff and the acquisition of the intellectual properties and technology of Topologic Systems Corpo-ration (TSC), provided the early thrust for the Company.

Since its inception, IPT has concentrated its technology and skills on the emerging markets for image processing products and services. This work has produced a number of unique and successful products for image enhancement and restoration. During the past year, the company has broadened its activities to include its proprietary multilingual OCR engine. IPT is under government contract to accelerate its OCR develop-ment. A software version which handles Cyrillic and Roman-based languages will be released in the third quarter of 1992. Recognition accelerator hardware is under development. All versions are compatible with the IPT Scan Optimizer image enhancement products.

IPT business and marketing activities are based in Vienna, Virginia, near Washington D.C., with development and manufacturing facilities adjacent to the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Over the past several years, IPT, resellers, and scanner OEMs have shipped IPT image enhancement systems and products to installations in any parts of the world. An extensive and impressive array of business nd government operations use the Scan Optimizer. IPT¹s current prod-ct line and development plans underline its commitment to high-uality image processing, storage, and manipulation technologies.

Funded Projects

SBIR Grants from the National Institutes of Health, Phase I and phase II (1989 - 1990)
TEXTSKIMMER: A Handheld Reader for the Visually Impaired.

SBIR Grant from the National Institutes of Health, Phase I (1992)
Telesign: Video Telecommunication for Sign Language"

Two-phase R&D Contract, Office of Research and Development, CIA (1991-1992)
Development of a high accuracy, high speed, multilingual OCR system and a comprehensive Cyrillic database of grayscale, bitonal images and associated text.

Bilbiography, Articles and Presentations

Ault, J. M. "Converting Information for WORM Optical Storage". "The Conversion and Enhancement of Archival Photostatic Deed Records: A Pilot Study", Ed. J.P. Roth. Meckler, 1990.

Braunschweig, B., Harrington, D. "Applying Electronic Image Processing to Photostats." Inform Magazine, May 1990.

Asimopoulos, N. "New Approaches to Document Recovery"
Ninth Annual Conference and Exhibition on WORM and Rewritable Optical Storage and Digital Document Image Automation. Optical Information Systems. September 1989.

Asimopoulos, N., Ault, J., Tatum, J. "Image Enhancement Session"
FOSE Conference and Exposition, Washington DC, Mar. 1990.

Asimopoulos, N. "Image Enhancement Technologies for Binary Images",
National Conference and Exposition, Electronic Imaging. Wahsington DC. Feb. 1990.

Asimopoulos, N. "Image Enhancement: A Crucial Tool",
The Computer and Information Systems Conference. FOSE. Washington DC. Mar. 1991.

Asimopoulos, N. "OCR Performance under Distortion and Noise",
Document Understanding Workshop. DARPA, Xerox PARC. Palo Alto, CA. May 1992.

Asimopoulos, N. "Image Enhancement for OCR Applications",
Symposium on Advanced Information Processing and Analysis. AIPASG. Reston, VA. Mar. 1992.

Asimopoulos, N. "From Paper to ASCII",
25^th TAWPI The Association for Word Process Improvements, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 1995.

Patents

"Process and Device for Analyzing and Restoring Image Data in a Digital Signal from a Scanned Document" by Asimopoulos, Barry & Nadler. US Patent 5,703,971

"Process and Device for The Binarization of a Pattern" by Nadler. US Patent 4,509,195

"Process and Device for The Automatic Segmentation of a Scanned Image in an Image Pattern Recognition System" by Nadler. US Patent 4,504,971

"Image Scanning Method and Device" by Nadler. US Patent 4,471,387

"Method and Device for Image Analysis" by Nadler. US Patent 4,418,362