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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 20, 2013
Applicants:

Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Maharashtra, IN;

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, IN;

Inventors:

Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, West Bengal, IN;

Arpan Pal, West Bengal, IN;

Aniruddha Sinha, West Bengal, IN;

Utpal Garain, Kolkata, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/344 (2013.01); G06K 9/342 (2013.01); G06K 9/348 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for detection of touching characters in a media, characterized by segmentation of adjoining character spaces. In the very first step, an aspect ratio is calculated for each connected component. A candidate touching position of each character is determined by calculating a threshold aspect ratio for each character. Further, a candidate cut column is determined based on a relation between column pixel densities and corresponding length thereof the column in order to segment the touching characters at the candidate cut column.


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