Patent ID: 8953885
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: one or more computers; and one or more storage devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising: wherein feature values in the feature table comprise a second feature value computed based on a character language model, wherein the second feature value corresponds to a probability for a given input character based one or more previous characters; and determining, by application of a search function, a transcription that minimizes a cost for the text image according to the log linear model, wherein the transcription is a sequence of identified candidate characters, one candidate character for each image segment, wherein the search function performs a beam search through a lattice of nodes and directed edges, wherein each node corresponds to one of the identified candidate characters and each edge to a node is associated with the score associated with the node.