Patent ID: 7805307
Filing Date: 2010-09-28
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A cell phone comprising: (a) a body portion containing a keypad, an audio receiver, and an audio transmitter; (b) a digital camera in said body portion having an outwardly facing lens; (c) a processor capable of receiving an image containing a text sequence from said digital camera, distinguishing individual words in said sequence, and causing said audio transmitter to recite said individual words in said sequence; and (d) storage storing a plurality of templates organized into predefined categories, each of said categories associated with a unique audible signal recitable from said audio transmitter, and at least one of said categories including more than one template, where said processor identifies a selected one of said predefined categories based upon a manual input received after audible recitation of a said signal associated with the selected one of said predefined categories, and automatically identifies the layout format of text in an image captured by said digital camera based upon solely those ones of said plurality of templates within said identified predefined category.