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Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 14, 2012
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventors:

Vasant Manohar, Tamil Nadu, IN;

Sridhar Godavarthy, Tamil Nadu, IN;

Viswanath Sankaranarayanan, Tamil Nadu, IN;

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/14 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/14 (2013.01); G06F 17/21 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some implementations include using a trained classifier to identify page-turn events in a video. The video may be divided into multiple segments based on the page-turn events, with each segment of the multiple segments corresponding to a pair of adjacent pages in a book. Exemplar frames that provide non-redundant data compared to other frames may be chosen from each segment. The exemplar frames may be cropped to include content portions of pages. The exemplar frames may be aligned such that a pixel is located in a same position in each frame. Optical character recognition (OCR) may be performed on exemplar frames and the OCR for exemplar frames in each segment may be combined. The exemplar frames in each segment may be combined to create a composite image for each pair of adjacent pages in the book, and OCR may be performed on the composite image.


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