Patent ID: 8644611

Claim:
A method for text recognition of a pixelated image with unknown text in a first region of said image, the method comprising: generating a plurality text hypotheses, each text hypothesis representing the unknown text in the first region, each text hypothesis being associated with a corresponding score; for each text hypothesis of the generated hypotheses, forming data representing one or more segmentations of the first region of the image according to the hypothesis, each segmentation including a series of segments of the image, each segment corresponding to a part of the text hypothesis; for each of the one or more segmentations, for each segment in the segmentation, forming separate data representing segmental features of the segment; determining a segmental score for each segment according to the segmental features of the segment and the corresponding part of the text hypothesis associated with the segmentation including the segment; for each text hypothesis, determining an overall segmental score according to the determined segmental score for the segments of the one or more segmentations associated with the text hypothesis, and determining an overall score by combining the overall segmental score and the corresponding score associated with the hypotheses; and providing data representing a text recognition the first region of the image according to the determined overall score for each of the generated text hypotheses for the image.