Information capturing camera and developmental issues

Author

Fujisawa, Hiromichi ; Sako, Hiroshi ; Okada, Yoshihiro ; Lee, Seong-Whan

Author_Institution

Central Res. Lab., Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

20-22 Sep 1999

Firstpage

205

Lastpage

208

Abstract

Presents a concept of an information capturing camera, which is an enhanced digital/video camera that can recognize characters in captured images and show relevant information, such as a translated version of the words in the image into another language. Also discussed are technical issues and possible approaches. Technical issues include detection of the text image regions, perspective distortion normalization, binarization of character images in unknown colors, recognition of omnifont and decorative characters, word recognition and noun compound translation. Finally, an international collaboration on the development of the required technology is proposed

Keywords

character recognition equipment; document image processing; image segmentation; language translation; optical character recognition; video cameras; captured images; character image binarization; character recognition; decorative characters; digital video camera; information capturing camera; international collaboration; language translation; noun compound translation; omnifont characters; perspective distortion normalization; technical issues; text image region detection; unknown colors; word recognition; Character recognition; Data mining; Dictionaries; Digital cameras; Hardware; Image recognition; Image sensors; International collaboration; Monitoring; Text recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 1999. ICDAR '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0318-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.1999.791760

Filename

791760