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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2019
Nielsen Consumer Llc, New York, NY (US);
Roberto Arroyo, Madrid, ES;
Javier Tovar Velasco, Valladolid, ES;
Francisco Javier Delgado Del Hoyo, Valladolid, ES;
Diego González Serrador, Valladolid, ES;
Emilio Almazán, Madrid, ES;
Antonio Hurtado, Valladolid, ES;
Nielsen Consumer LLC, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to analyze characteristics of text of interest using a computing system. An example apparatus includes a text detector to provide text data from a first image, the first image including a first text region of interest and a second text region not of interest, a color-coding generator to generate a plurality of color-coded text-map images, the plurality of color-coded text-map images including color-coded segments with different colors, the color-coded segments corresponding to different text characteristics, and a convolutional neural network (CNN) to determine a first location in the first image as more likely to be the first text region of interest than a second location in the first image corresponding to the second text region that is not of interest based on performing a CNN analysis on the first image and the plurality of color-coded text-map images.