Patent №
US 8,917,935
Granted
2014-12-23
Filed 2008
Owner
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
2
nlp · vision
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12122729
Detecting text using stroke width based text detection. As a part of the text detection, a representation of an image is generated that includes pixels that are associated with the stroke widths of components of the image. Connected components of the image are identified by filtering out portions of the pixels using metrics related to stroke width. Text is detected in the image based on the identified connected components.
AI classification
Ownership
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
assignment · 213190222
Assignors
EPSHTEIN, BORIS, OFEK, EYAL, WEXLER, YONATAN
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.