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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2015
Applicant:
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Inventor:
Richard John Campbell, Camas, WA (US);
Assignee:
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/4671 (2013.01); G06K 9/00 (2013.01); G06K 9/4604 (2013.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 5/40 (2013.01); G06T 7/0085 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10004 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for boundary detection, in an image, by suppression of contours resulting from background textures and text in the image.