Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Google Inc.

Yoav Schwartzberg

Yossi Matias

Tal Cohen

Yonatan Erez

Tom Shenhav

Arkady Zaifman

Gidon Ben Uri

Alice Duarte Scarpa

Ethan Bar-Yehuda

Mira Weiss

A method for identifying a predefined graphic symbol having a plurality of graphical characters. The method comprises the following steps: a) receiving a digital image having a plurality of pixels depicting a scene, b) identifying a plurality of first groups of contiguous pixels in the proximity of one another, members of each one the first group having a first common pixel defining property, and c) identifying at least one of the plurality of first groups as one of the plurality of graphical characters, thereby detecting the predefined graphic symbol in the digital image.

Identification of a graphical symbol by identifying its constituent contiguous pixel groups as characters

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Jerusalem, Israel

Yoav Schwartzberg