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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2020
Itron, Inc., Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Roberto Aiello, Bend, OR (US);
John Boik, Houston, TX (US);
Itron, Inc., Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for meter text detection and recognition are described herein. In an example, an application receives a first image, depicting information displayed by the meter, from an imaging device. One or more qualities of the first image may be assessed, such as focus or lighting. A setting of the imaging device may be adjusted. The adjusting may be based at least in part on the assessed quality of the first image and one or more characteristics of an optical character recognition (OCR) algorithm. Accordingly, the settings of the image-capture device are tuned to the needs of the OCR algorithm. A second image may be captured, depicting information displayed by the meter, using the imaging device adjusted according to the adjusted setting. The OCR algorithm may be applied to the second image to obtain an alphanumeric value associated with the second image. The alphanumeric value is obtained from the OCR algorithm.
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