Patent ID: 9239961
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: G06K

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: a client device configured to acquire image data using a camera, the image data including a representation of text contained within a field of view of the camera, and transmit the image data to a text recognition service; and a text recognition service configured to analyze the image data using at least two categories of heuristics to attempt to identify text that is truncated at an edge of the image data, the at least two categories of heuristics including at least a general text heuristic and a type-specific heuristic, the text recognition system further configured to transmit the recognized text to the client device, the recognized text including a plurality of text objects each having a respective truncation confidence score as determined by the text recognition service, wherein the client device is further configured to prevent one or more text objects from the recognized text from being displayed on the client device where the respective truncation confidence scores for the one or more text objects are less than a minimum truncation confidence score.