Patent Document ID: 9922263
Application ID: 14387094
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for detection of touching characters in a media by segmentation of adjoining character spaces, the method comprising: acquiring each component of the media in a predetermined sequence, each component having at least two touching characters; determining an aspect ratio of each component; and performing a component investigation for each aspect ratio higher than a threshold aspect ratio, the component investigation comprising: determining a candidate touching position of the at least two touching characters in a plurality of geometric orientations of the at least two touching characters; computing a number of pixels representing a text of the at least two touching characters; computing a length of a longest run of the number of pixels representing the text of the at least two touching characters for each column of the component; determining a candidate cut column based on a relation between a column pixel density and a corresponding length of the column; and segmenting the at least two touching characters with a referential boundary of the candidate cut column in the component.