Patent Document ID: 8965126
Application ID: 13808445

Base Claim:
1. A character recognition device comprising: circuitry configured to: receive an image containing characters to be recognized as an input; detect a character region where the characters are present in the image; separate the character region on a character-by-character basis; perform a character-by-character recognition on the characters present in separated regions and output one or more character recognition result candidates for each character; receive the candidates as an input, calculate weights for transitions to the candidates, and create first character string transition data being character string transition data based on a set of the candidates and the weights, wherein: the weights are corrected based on a character size of each of the candidates, and the created first character string transition data contains a first epsilon transition from an initial state of a character string transition to the candidate, a second epsilon transition from the candidate to a final state of the character string transition, and a third epsilon transition for skipping the candidate on a character-by-character basis; and sequentially perform state transitions based on the first character string transition data, accumulate the weights in each state transition and calculate a cumulative weight for each state transition, and output one or more state transition results based on the cumulative weight.

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Claim 3:
3. The character recognition device according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to: create third character string transition data being character string transition data of each word present in a word database, and detect a word present in the image by performing a composition operation of the first character string transition data and the third character string transition data.