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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eyal Yair, Haifa, IL;
Oren Kagan, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ; G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382178 ; 382187 ; 382259 ; 382195 ; 382194 ; 382204 ;
Abstract
Image processing apparatus is disclosed for splitting, for subsequent storage or processing by OCR apparatus, character images in digital form comprising connected characters, the image processing apparatus extracts an image skeleton from an input image and represents the topology of the image skeleton in a first data structure; generates, from the first data structure, second data structures representing the topologies of the results of possible splits of the input image skeleton; evaluates the second data structures and selects one of the possible splits to thereby split the input image.