Patent ID: 7787693
Filing Date: 2010-08-31
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at a camera associated with a mobile communications device, a video stream comprising at least one image comprising text; defining, at a processor, a designated display area in the image; and detecting, via the processor, a subregion of the image comprising a word in the designated display area, the process of detecting the subregion comprising using a first thresholding process; displaying the received image on the mobile communications device and indicating the detected subregion on the display of the image; applying, via the processor, a second thresholding process to the detected subregion, that second thresholding process being different from the first thresholding process, to produce a processed subregion; sending information about the processed subregion to a remote entity comprising optical character recognition functionality.