Patent ID: 11861893
Assignee: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A processing device, comprising:
an extractor extracting a plurality of regions from a candidate region, the candidate region being a candidate of a region in which a meter is imaged, the plurality of regions respectively including a plurality of characters of the meter; and
a type determiner determining a type of the meter based on positions of the plurality of regions, wherein
the extractor includes a numeral region extractor,
the numeral region extractor extracts a plurality of numeral regions, as the plurality of regions, respectively including a plurality of numerals, and, the type determiner:
determines the type of the meter to be round when the plurality of numerals is arranged in a curve; and
determines the type of the meter to be vertical or horizontal when the plurality of numerals is arranged along one direction.