Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Text extraction from graphical user interface content
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Application No.: US15226928Application Date: 2016-08-03
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Publication No.: US09773472B2Publication Date: 2017-09-26
- Inventor: Amir Geva , Mattias Marder
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Ziu Glazberg
- Main IPC: H04N1/40
- IPC: H04N1/40 ; G09G5/02 ; G06K9/00 ; G06K9/34

Abstract:
Systems and methods for extracting text from images rendered on a display screen, the method comprising capturing a color image rendered on a display screen; and transforming the color image to binary color image, preserving text-like graphic components and filtering out non-text-like graphical components. The transforming comprises scanning one or more areas of the color image; and detecting continuous bi-tonal regions in the scanned one or more areas, wherein the continuous bi-tonal regions have large variances.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160342833A1 Text Extraction From Graphical User Interface Content Public/Granted day:2016-11-24
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