Image analysis – Image segmentation – Segmenting individual characters or words
Patent
1996-11-21
1998-07-28
Shalwala, Bipin
Image analysis
Image segmentation
Segmenting individual characters or words
382187, 382259, 382195, 382194, 382204, G06K 934, G06K 900, G06K 946, G06K 966
Patent
active
057871965
ABSTRACT:
Image processing apparatus is disclosed for splitting, for subsequent storage or processing by OCR apparatus, character images in digital form comprising connected characters, the image processing apparatus extracts an image skeleton from an input image and represents the topology of the image skeleton in a first data structure; generates, from the first data structure, second data structures representing the topologies of the results of possible splits of the input image skeleton; evaluates the second data structures and selects one of the possible splits to thereby split the input image.
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Kagan Oren
Yair Eyal
International Business Machines - Corporation
Murray James E.
Shalwala Bipin
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