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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2001
Applicant:
Hiroyasu Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroyasu Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
To cut out a character and the like which are relatively darker than a background and are written with a pen and so on at a high speed, to use the cutting-out of a character and the like as pre-processing for character recognition, and to emphasize an object so as to hardly damage determinability of a character, a figure and the like to binarize the same. Attention is paid to that a character written with a pen and so on is relatively darker than a background, and a relative density of the character to a periphery thereof is obtained to binarize the same, thus emphasizing an object such as a character.