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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2017
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuo Kimura, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A search area is set on a recognition target image, cutout areas are set at a plurality of positions in the search area, images corresponding to the plurality of set cutout areas are extracted, similarities of candidate characters obtained by comparison between the extracted images and dictionary data is weighted in accordance with the positions of the cutout areas. In such a manner, evaluation values of the candidate characters are obtained, and a candidate character with the highest evaluation value among the obtained candidate characters is output as a recognition result. Further, a search area relating to a next character is set based on position information about the cutout area corresponding to the recognition result.