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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
May. 19, 2008
Applicants:
Boris Epshtein, Bothell, WA (US);
Eyal Ofek, Redmond, WA (US);
Yonatan Wexler, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/3258 (2013.01); G06K 9/00463 (2013.01);
Abstract
Detecting text using stroke width based text detection. As a part of the text detection, a representation of an image is generated that includes pixels that are associated with the stroke widths of components of the image. Connected components of the image are identified by filtering out portions of the pixels using metrics related to stroke width. Text is detected in the image based on the identified connected components.