发明名称 Methods and apparatus for locating and identifying text labels in digital images
摘要 Techniques for identifying labels appearing in images are described. A digital image is analyzed to identify individual components. Each of the individual components is analyzed to determine whether or not it is a text component by comparing it against criteria such as size, aspect ratio, and proximity to other components. Each component identified as a text component is compared against criteria such as size in order to identify it as a label or not. Location coordinates of each label are stored in association with the label and optical character recognition is performed on the labels. Once the labels are identified, each image can be used as an online catalog page. For example, an image may be used to construct a web page containing pictures of available products with each label serving as a hypertext link to retrieve further information about the product or to enter an order for the product. Automatically identifying labels simplifies the conversion of preexisting paper catalog pages to online catalog pages or similar digitized images.
申请公布号 US2002141641(A1) 申请公布日期 2002.10.03
申请号 US20010818379 申请日期 2001.03.27
申请人 NCR CORPORATION 发明人 ZHU JIE
分类号 G06K9/20;(IPC1-7):G06K9/00;G06K9/34 主分类号 G06K9/20
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