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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 04, 2016
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Ikuo Fuchigami, Fukuoka, JP;
Masao Hamada, Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
Identification medium recognition device () includes image input () that acquires a captured image imaged by an imaging device, identification medium region detector () that detects a region of the identification medium from the captured image, identification medium recognizer () that recognizes the character and/or the numeric character included in the identification medium from the region of the identification medium, super-resolution processor () that selectively performs super-resolution processing of the region of the identification medium, region storage () that stores a preset region in the captured image, identification medium region determiner () that determines whether the region of the identification medium is positioned within the preset region, and super-resolution processing selector () that selects, in a case where it is determined that the region of the identification medium is positioned within the preset region, execution of super-resolution processing by the super-resolution processor.