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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
May. 31, 2013
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Masahiro Matsushita, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/72 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/18 (2013.01); G06K 9/72 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
To make it easier to grasp characters that appear across different images by determining a pair of character area images to be a combination target based on a degree of similarity or a position of each character area image extracted from different images, and connecting and combining overlapping area images that are the determined pair of character area images and that have a similar image feature amount.