Patent Document ID: 9213911
Application ID: 14136545

Base Claim:
1. An apparatus for recognizing text on a surface, the apparatus comprising: an image sensor configured to capture images from an environment of a user; and at least one processor device configured to: identify the surface is a curved surface based on at least one of the images; determine that text is found on the identified curved surface; receive a first image of a first perspective of text on the curved surface, wherein the first image includes a first portion of text on the curved surface, the first portion of text including skewed characters that are unrecognizable in an optical character recognition process due to a curvature of the first portion of text on the curved surface viewed from the first perspective, and wherein the first image includes a second portion of text recognizable in the optical character recognition process; receive a second image of a second perspective of the text on the curved surface, wherein the second image includes the first portion of text in a form capable of recognition in the optical character recognition process; perform optical character recognition on the second portion of text in the first image and the first portion of text in the second image; combine results of the optical character recognition on the second portion of text in the first image and on the first portion of text in the second image; and provide the user with a recognized representation of the text, including a recognized representation of the second portion of text in the first image and the first portion of text in the second image.

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Claim 9:
9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor device is further configured to compare a plurality of sets of image regions proximate to each other, and based on statistics related to the plurality of sets of image regions recognize an associated character.