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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2006
Gregory K. Myers, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert C. Bolles, Mountain View, CA (US);
Quang-tuan Luong, Menlo Park, CA (US);
James A. Herson, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Gregory K. Myers, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert C. Bolles, Mountain View, CA (US);
Quang-Tuan Luong, Menlo Park, CA (US);
James A. Herson, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system before performing OCR, thereby yielding more robust recognition performance. The present invention also combines OCR results from multiple frames, in a manner that takes the best recognition results from each frame and forms a single result that can be more accurate than the results from any of the individual frames.