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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2013
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Pawan Kumar Baheti, Bangalore, IN;
Dhananjay Ashok Gore, Bangalore, IN;
Hyung-Il Koo, Seoul, KR;
Te-Won Lee, Seoul, KR;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
In several aspects of described embodiments, an electronic device and method use a camera to capture an image or a frame of video of an environment outside the electronic device followed by identification of blocks of regions in the image. Each block that contains a region is checked, as to whether a test for presence of a line of pixels is met. When the test is met for a block, that block is identified as pixel-line-present. Pixel-line-present blocks are used to identify blocks that are adjacent. One or more adjacent block(s) may be merged with a pixel-line-present block when one or more rules are found to be satisfied, resulting in a merged block. The merged block is then subject to the above-described test, to verify presence of a line of pixels therein, and when the test is satisfied the merged block is processed normally, e.g. classified as text or non-text.