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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2016
Applicant:
Xiaomi Inc., Beijing, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Xiaomi Inc., Beijing, CN;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06T 5/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2013.01); G06K 9/00463 (2013.01); G06T 5/40 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10004 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and a device for area identification are provided in the disclosure. The method includes: binarizing a text area including a row of characters; calculating a histogram in a vertical direction of the binarized text area, wherein the histogram includes abscissas of pixels in each column and corresponding accumulated values of foreground color pixels of the pixels in each column; and identifying a character area of each of one or more characters in the text area according to distribution information of the accumulated values.