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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Omron Corporation, Kyoto-Shi, Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/04 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/22 (2006.01); G06K 9/72 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6215 (2013.01); G06K 9/344 (2013.01); G06K 9/22 (2013.01); G06K 9/723 (2013.01); H04N 1/00251 (2013.01);
Abstract
A character reading method performed by a computer connected to an imaging unit includes repeating processing of recognizing the character included in one-frame image input latest in parallel to input of the moving image, performing matching of a recognition result obtained by every piece of recognition processing in units of characters along a time axis, fixing the recognition result appearing with an appearance ratio larger than a reference value previously decided in the recognition processing continuously performed at least predetermined times, and outputting the fixed recognition result.