Patent ID: 9678642
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K

Claim:
1. A method for selecting a region in an image having substantially connected pixels representing content of the image, the image displayed in a touch-sensitive user interface, comprising: identifying one or more areas in the image having the substantially connected pixels indicating the content of the image without performing character recognition; receiving coordinates of a touch input on the touch-sensitive user interface that indicates the region in the image the user requests to select via the touch input; if the coordinates of the touch input are located in the one or more areas having the substantially connected pixels indicating the content of the image, determining the substantially connected pixels in the image that are located at a specified proximity from the coordinates of the touch input; and bounding the substantially connected pixels located at the specified proximity from the coordinates, the bounded substantially connected pixels indicating the region the user selects using the touch input, wherein the touch input is a text selection gesture and the identifying the one or more areas in the image having substantially connected pixels representing content of the image includes applying a morphology dilation filter to the image to form one or more lines of connected pixels and forming a bounding box having a left side corresponding to starting lines of the lines of connected pixels, a right side corresponding to end lines of the lines of connected pixels and a centroid corresponding to a mean position of each of the lines of the connected pixels.