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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2017
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuo Kimura, Yokohama, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to an aspect of the embodiments, a search region is set for a recognition target image, cut regions are set at a plurality of positions in the search region, images respectively corresponding to the plurality of set cut regions are extracted, each of the extracted images is compared with dictionary data to detect candidate character information and position information about the cut region that corresponds to the candidate character. Then, the candidate character information that has the highest evaluation value in the detected candidate character information is output as a recognition result, and based on the position information about the cut region corresponding to the recognition result, a search region for a next character is set.