Video text processing apparatus

Details Video text processing apparatus Video text processing apparatus

2011-04-19

2011-04-19

Perungavoor, Sath V (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Pattern recognition

Limited to specially coded, human-readable characters

C382S270000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07929765

ABSTRACT:
Video frames that contain text areas are selected from given video frames by removing redundant frames and non-text frames, the text areas in the selected frames are located by removing false strokes, and text lines in the text areas are extracted and binarized.

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