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US 2019/0377941 A1Published application
Character recognition apparatus and character recognition method
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTOHRU NAKANISHI, ZENKEN KIN
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Abstract
A book digitization apparatus includes: a three-dimensional data generation unit that generates three-dimensional data of a book; a two-dimensional page data generation unit that generates two-dimensional page data from the three-dimensional data; and a character recognition unit that extracts a plurality of unique points of a character from a plurality of points which are included in the two-dimensional page data and each of which has a value corresponding to ink, thereby recognizing the character.
Claims5
A character recognition apparatus comprising:
- a three-dimensional data generation unit that captures an image of a book and generates three-dimensional data of the book;
- a two-dimensional page data generation unit that generates, from the three-dimensional data, two-dimensional page data that includes information about a plurality of points each having a value corresponding to ink or a value corresponding to a background;
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- a recognition unit that extracts a plurality of unique points of a character from the plurality of points which are included in the two-dimensional page data and each of which has the value corresponding to the ink, thereby recognizing the character.
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A character recognition method comprising:
- capturing an image of a book and generating three-dimensional data of the book;
- generating, from the three-dimensional data, two-dimensional page data that includes information about a plurality of points each having a value corresponding to ink or a value corresponding to a background;
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- extracting a plurality of unique points of a character from the plurality of points which are included in the two-dimensional page data and each of which has the value corresponding to the ink, thereby recognizing the character.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.