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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2011
Christopher M Warnock, Los Altos, CA (US);
Richard M Holzgrafe, San Jose, CA (US);
Tom J Santos, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay C Nolan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ken Abrams, Campbell, CA (US);
Christopher M Warnock, Los Altos, CA (US);
Richard M Holzgrafe, San Jose, CA (US);
Tom J Santos, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay C Nolan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ken Abrams, Campbell, CA (US);
Ebrary, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at least the selected regions in accordance with a textual relationship between the selected regions. The desired order may be related to the order in which the selected regions, and or words therein, are to be presented in a different format appropriate for a specific use, such by a human reader, for transferring the text over a network, for use in a database or by a search function, word processor or printer. Normalizing, columnizing, regionalizing, frameset building and article tracing functions may be used to develop the desired order in related regions in an article within the image.