Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Chonnam National University

Myung-Hun Lee

Seong-Taek Hwang

Jong-Hyun Park

Soo-Hyung Kim

Jung-Sik Kim

Hee-bum Ahn

Guee-Sang Lee

Hyung-Jung Yang

Jun-Sik Lim

Jong-Mun Jeong

Disclosed is a method for retrieving a label in a portable terminal. The method includes obtaining a label image photographed through a camera, extracting characters included in the label image and recognizing the extracted characters, detecting at least one label including the recognized character from a label database including multiple labels and information on the multiple labels and constituting a preliminary label candidate group including said at least one label, detecting an image characteristic of the label image, detecting at least one label having an image characteristic, which is similar with the detected image characteristic, from the preliminary label candidate group, and constituting a final label candidate group, and providing each of said at least one label included in the final label candidate group and detailed information corresponding to each of said at least one label.

Method and apparatus for retrieving label

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Gwangju, South Korea

Myung-Hun Lee