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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2017
Applicant:
Konica Minolta Laboratory U.s.a., Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Inventor:
Wei Ming, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA LABORATORY U.S.A., INC., San Mateo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00463 (2013.01); G06K 9/6202 (2013.01); G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06T 2210/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
To identify emphasized text, bounding boxes are based on clusters resulting from horizontal compression and horizontal morphological dilation. The bounding boxes are processed to determine if any contain words or characters in bold. A bounding box is eliminated based on a comparison of its density and an average density across all bounding boxes. If its density is greater, text elements within the bounding box are evaluated to determine whether the text element is bold.