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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2006
Applicant:
Yoshihisa Ohguro, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshihisa Ohguro, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of detecting an orientation of characters in a document image are disclosed. The orientation of the characters is determined based on a detection result, which indicates the degree of similarity between a character line of the document image having a selected orientation and trained data of the upright position.