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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 18, 2014
Applicant:

Technologies Humanware Inc., Drummondville (Québec), CA;

Inventors:

Pierre Hamel, Verdun, CA;

Alain Bélanger, Longueuil, CA;

Éric Beauchamp, La Prairie, CA;

Assignee:

TECHNOLOGIES HUMANWARE INC., Drummondville (Quebec), CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00442 (2013.01); G06K 9/344 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and a system for providing a text-based representation of a portion of a working area to a user are provided. The method includes acquiring an image of the entire working area and performing a fast OCR process on at least a region of interest of the image corresponding to the portion of the working area, thereby rapidly obtaining an initial machine-encoded representation of the portion of the working area and immediately presenting it to the user as the text-based representation. Parallelly to the fast OCR process, a high-precision OCR process is performed on at least the region of interest of the image, thereby obtaining a high-precision machine-encoded representation of the portion of the working area. Upon completing the high-precision OCR process, the high-precision machine-encoded representation of the portion of the working area is presented to the user as the text-based representation, in replacement of the initial machine-encoded representation.


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