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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2006
Alan Yuille, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Xiangrong Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stellan Lagerstrom, Burlingame, CA (US);
Daniel Terry, New York, NY (US);
Mark Nitzberg, Oakland, CA (US);
Alan Yuille, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Xiangrong Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stellan Lagerstrom, Burlingame, CA (US);
Daniel Terry, New York, NY (US);
Mark Nitzberg, Oakland, CA (US);
The Blindsight Corporation, Berkeley, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for detecting text in real-world images comprises calculating a cascade of classifiers, the cascade comprising a plurality of stages, each stage including one or more weak classifiers, the plurality of stages organized to start out with classifiers that are most useful for ruling out non-text regions, and removing regions classified as non-text regions from the cascade prior to completion of the cascade, to further speed up processing.