Patent ID: 7469063
Filing Date: 2008-12-23
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for recognizing characters comprising: a text structure analyzing unit that analyzes an input image of text composed of mixed typed and handwritten characters and separates the input text image into predefined text imaging regions; a character clipping unit that clips characters one by one in each of the text imaging regions separated by the text structure analyzing unit; a feature vectors calculating unit that calculates feature vectors of the clipped characters for each of the text imaging regions in terms of a centroid or a center of a circumscribed quadrangle of a character; a feature vectors aggregating unit that aggregates the calculated feature vectors over the plurality of text image regions; and a typed and handwritten character separation unit that separates characters involved in the input text image into the typed characters and the handwritten characters, based on a result of the aggregation by the feature vectors aggregating unit.