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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2013
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Amir Geva, Yokneam, IL;
Mattias Marder, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/02 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/02 (2013.01); G06K 9/00456 (2013.01); G06K 9/342 (2013.01); H04N 1/40062 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for extracting text from images rendered on a display screen, the method comprising capturing a color image rendered on a display screen; and transforming the color image to binary color image, preserving text-like graphic components and filtering out non-text-like graphical components. The transforming comprises scanning one or more areas of the color image; and detecting continuous bi-tonal regions in the scanned one or more areas, wherein the continuous bi-tonal regions have large variances.