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US 12,033,410 B2Granted
Character recognition device and character recognition method
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsKentaro Matsumoto, Yuma Saito, Daiki Yamamoto, Rei Hasegawa, Masashi Yamamoto
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Abstract
A character recognition device includes a recognizer that recognizes at least one character string from an image including a trailer captured by an imaging device, an attribute determinator that determines an attribute of the character string recognized by the recognition unit, and a trailer ID estimator that estimate whether the character string is a trailer ID based on the attribute of the character string determined by the attribute determinator.
Claims9
A character recognition device comprising:
- a recognizer that recognizes at least one character string from an image including a trailer captured by an imaging device;
- and
- an ID estimator that estimates a possibility that the character string is a trailer ID is higher when a writing manner of the character string is vertical writing than when the writing manner of the character string is horizontal writing.
A character recognition method comprising:
- recognizing at least one character string from an image including a trailer captured by an imaging device;
- and
- estimating a possibility that the character string is a trailer ID is higher when a writing manner of the character string is vertical writing than when the writing manner of the character string is horizontal writing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.