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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Konica Minolta Laboratory U.s.a., Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jason James Grams, Westminster, CO (US);
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/48 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00463 (2013.01); G06K 9/4604 (2013.01); G06T 7/0081 (2013.01); G06T 7/0085 (2013.01); G06K 2009/4666 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20148 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30176 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for image processing by: obtaining an original image including a bulleted list; determining a list bounding box enclosing the bulleted list; determining line bounding boxes nested within the list bounding box enclosing lines of the bulleted list; identifying bullets based on the line bounding boxes; identifying indentations based on the bullets; and generating a bulleted list object for the bulleted list in the original image based on the indentations.