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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2012
Applicant:
Omron Corporation, Kyoto-Shi, Kyoto, JP;
Inventor:
Shiro Fujieda, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/3283 (2013.01); G06K 9/00442 (2013.01); G06K 9/4647 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing method of processing a gray-scale image of character strings arranged in a plurality of lines of text, for character recognition, includes setting at least a part of a range, in which the character strings in the gray-scale image area are distributed, as a search area, and setting, for each of a plurality of points arranged along one of two axes, representing coordinates in the image, corresponding to an arrangement of the line of text, a plurality of lines extending across the search area, with the point as a starting point, and accumulating, for each of the lines, pixel data in the line within the search area.