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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1996
Eyal Yair, Haifa, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Image processing apparatus for segmenting an input image into image portions each containing a single character, the apparatus comprising identification logic for identifying connected components in the input image; classification logic, including a neural network, for determining into which of a number of predefined classes a connected component falls, at least one of said classes indicating that the connected component is most likely to be a single character; merging logic and splitting logic for merging and splitting the connected components. The merging and splitting logic and the classification logic are arranged to operate so that the connected components are iteratively merged and/or split and the resulting split and/or merged connected components reclassified by the classification logic until an image segmentation is achieved which meets a predefined criterion.