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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2015
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Wei You, Redmond, WA (US);
Dirk Ryan Padfield, Seattle, WA (US);
Gurumurthy Swaminathan, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/6203 (2013.01); G06K 9/42 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for improving optical character recognition approaches through the use of gap shifting. A text detection process is performed upon an image to detect a first region of text. A second region that is in line with the first region is shifted to reduce a gap between the first region and the second region, thereby creating a modified image. The text detection process is performed upon the modified image in order to detect text within the second region.