Character extracting apparatus, method, and program

Details Character extracting apparatus, method, and program Character extracting apparatus, method, and program

2007-09-13

2011-10-11

Carter, Aaron (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Image segmentation

Distinguishing text from other regions

C382S171000, C382S177000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08036463

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a technique of accurately extracting areas of characters included in a captured image. A character extracting device of the present invention extracts each character in an image with compensated pixel values. In more detail, the character extracting device integrates pixel values at each coordinate position in the image along a character extracting direction. Then, the character extracting device predicts the background area in the image based on the integrated pixel value. The compensated pixel values are compensated based on integrated pixel values at the predicted background area from integrated pixel values at each coordinate position.

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