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Patent US7917286 - Database assisted OCR for street scenes and other images - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsOptical character recognition (OCR) for images such as a street scene image is generally a difficult problem because of the variety of fonts, styles, colors, sizes, orientations, occlusions and partial occlusions that can be observed in the textual content of such scenes. However, a database query can...http://www.google.com/patents/US7917286?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7917286 - Database assisted OCR for street scenes and other imagesAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS7917286 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 11/305,694Publication dateMar 29, 2011Filing dateDec 16, 2005Priority dateDec 16, 2005Fee statusPaidAlso published asUS20070140595Publication number11305694, 305694, US 7917286 B2, US 7917286B2, US-B2-7917286, US7917286 B2, US7917286B2InventorsBret Taylor, Luc VincentOriginal AssigneeGoogle Inc.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (104), Non-Patent Citations (61), Referenced by (16), Classifications (10), Legal Events (3) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetDatabase assisted OCR for street scenes and other images
This application is related to U.S. application Ser. No. 11/088,542, filed Mar. 23, 2005, titled �Generating and Serving Tiles in a Digital Mapping System.� In addition, this application is related to U.S. application Ser. No. 11/051,534, filed Feb. 5, 2005, titled �A Digital Mapping System.� In addition, this application is related to U.S. application Ser. No. 11/181,386, filed Jul. 13, 2005, titled �Visually-Oriented Driving Directions in Digital Mapping System.� Each of these applications is herein incorporated in its entirety by reference.
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