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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2009
Applicant:
Tatsunobu Koike, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Tatsunobu Koike, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06K 9/78 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30253 (2013.01); G06K 9/78 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging apparatus configured to associate character information detected from an imaged picture displayed on a screen with a recorded picture displayed on the same screen including an imaging unit configured to image a subject and output an imaged picture, a picture recording unit configured to record pictures, a playback unit configured to play back a recorded picture recorded in the picture recording unit, and a character information detection unit configured to detect character information from the imaged picture outputted by the imaging unit.