DETECTING TEXT USING STROKE WIDTH BASED TEXT DETECTION

Patent №

US 8,917,935

Granted

2014-12-23

Filed 2008

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

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.

Natural languageVisionG06V 30/414G06V 20/63G06V 30/10

AI classification

Vision1.00
Natural language0.93
Machine learning0.47
AI hardware0.07
Knowledge representation0.01
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 213190222

Assignors

EPSHTEIN, BORIS, OFEK, EYAL, WEXLER, YONATAN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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