Patent ID: 6466694
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: G06K,Y10S

Abstract:
An image processing device for performing a recognition process of an input image, comprising:an identifying device identifying a pattern region of the input image, the pattern region including a pattern in the input image, and determining a type of the pattern region according to whether the pattern region has an internal structure of pattern regions; a recognizing device performing an image recognition process of the pattern included in the pattern region; an outputting device displaying type code information indicating the determined type of the pattern region as a recognition result candidate of an image constituent element structuring the input image when the pattern region has the internal structure, and outputting the type code information and individual code information indicating the pattern as the recognition result candidate when the pattern region does not have the internal structure; and a modifying device modifying the recognition result candidate, wherein if said identifying device determines a first candidate of the type of the pattern region to be a character, said recognizing device performs a character recognition process of the pattern included in the pattern region and said outputting device displays a list of recognition result candidates, which includes individual code information of one or more candidate characters of a recognition result as upper recognition result candidates and type code information other than the character as a lower recognition result candidate; and a user modifies the displayed list of the recognition result candidates using said modifying device.