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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
May. 02, 2014
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Rajiv Soundararajan, Bangalore, IN;
Kishor Kumar Barman, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Pawan Kumar Baheti, Bangalore, IN;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments disclosed pertain to Optical Character Recognition using Multiple Hypothesis Testing based techniques on images occurring in a variety of settings, including images captured by mobile stations. In some embodiments, a set of bifurcation points for a character cluster in an image may be determined. The character cluster may comprise non-uniformly spaced text or closely spaced text. A plurality of hypotheses may be determined for the character cluster, where each hypothesis is based on a subset of the bifurcation points and comprises a set of words generated from the character cluster. A plurality of scores corresponding to the plurality of hypotheses may be determined, where each score corresponds to a hypothesis, and a hypothesis may be selected from among the plurality of hypotheses based on a score associated with the selected hypothesis.