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Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 10, 2016
Applicant:

Renesas Electronics Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Satoru Tomisawa, Tokyo, JP;

Koichi Nose, Tokyo, JP;

Shunsuke Okumura, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/22 (2006.01); G06K 9/68 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/228 (2013.01); G06K 9/222 (2013.01); G06K 9/6885 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01); G06K 2209/501 (2013.01);
Abstract

A scanner system includes a pen-shaped scanner that scans a character strings that is one part of a sentence described in a paper book and generates and transmits sentence image data on the basis of the scanned character string, a storage unit that stores therein book image data that is higher in image quality than the sentence image data and is obtained by electronically imaging the sentence described in the paper book, and a matching unit that compares the book image data with the sentence image data that the pen-shaped scanner has transmitted and extracts partial image data that has been decide to match the sentence image data from the book image data.


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