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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2008
Applicant:
Marco J. Bressan, Grenoble, FR;
Inventor:
Marco J. Bressan, Grenoble, FR;
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of characterizing a word image includes traversing the word image in steps with a window and at each of a plurality of the steps, identifying a window image. For each of the plurality of window images, a feature is extracted. The word image is characterized, based on the features extracted from the plurality of window images, wherein the features are considered as a loose collection with associated sequential information.