Patent ID: 9027122
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: communicating for display, via a computing device, a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) test comprising an image with distorted alphanumeric characters; and responsive to a user positioning an assistance tool proximate to one of the alphanumeric characters, isolating, via the computing device, a view of the image corresponding to the one alphanumeric character by enhancing only a portion of the image corresponding to the one alphanumeric character to reduce distortion without enhancing other alphanumeric characters of the image, said enhancing only a portion of the image comprising reducing a severity of distortion of the portion of the image isolated by the assistance tool, wherein reducing the severity of distortion includes at least one of removing distortion from the foreground, removing distortion from the background, communicating for display the one alphanumeric character at a random location on the image, communicating for display the one alphanumeric character without overlap and skew but rotated, and applying distortions to a lesser degree.