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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2007
John R. Frank, Cambridge, MA (US);
Christopher Schmidt, Cambridge, MA (US);
John R. Frank, Cambridge, MA (US);
Christopher Schmidt, Cambridge, MA (US);
Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
Under one aspect, an interface program stored on a computer-readable medium causes a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of: displaying an image of a region of a metric vector space; obtaining a set of pixel extents in the image that contain apparent textual annotations; for each pixel extent of the set, obtaining a confidence score that the pixel extent actually contains a textual annotation; and displaying the set of pixel extents in a ranked list based on the corresponding confidence scores. In some embodiments, the program further causes the computer system to perform the functions of, for at least one pixel extent of the set, at least one of automatically generating a text string based on the apparent textual annotation, and accepting user input entering a text string based on the apparent textual annotation.