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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2022
Filed:
May. 01, 2017
Symbol Technologies, Llc, Lincolnshire, IL (US);
Yan Zhang, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Robert E. Beach, Los Altos, CA (US);
Bo Fu, Wheeling, IL (US);
Yan-Ming Cheng, Inverness, IL (US);
Jordan Varley, Mississauga, CA;
Iaacov Coby Segall, Toronto, CA;
Symbol Technologies, LLC, Holtsville, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of extracting price text from an image set includes: obtaining input data comprising (i) a plurality of images depicting shelves supporting products, and (ii) for each of the images, a set of text regions and corresponding price text strings; registering the images to a common frame of reference; identifying a subset of the text regions having overlapping locations in the common frame of reference; selecting one of the text regions from the subset; and presenting the price text string corresponding to the one of the text regions for further processing.