Title :
Translation camera
Author :
Watanabe, Yasuhiko ; Okada, Yoshihiro ; Kim, Yeun-Bae ; Takeda, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Inf., Ryukoku Univ., Ohtsu, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a camera system which translates Japanese texts in a scene. The system is portable and consists of four components: digital camera, character image extraction process, character recognition process, and translation process. The system extracts character strings from a region which specifies and translates them into English
Keywords :
computer vision; feature extraction; optical character recognition; video cameras; Japanese texts; character image extraction; character recognition; character strings; digital camera; text translation; Cameras; Character recognition; Data mining; Image recognition; Informatics; Layout; Manuals; Pattern recognition; Regions; Text recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition, 1998. Proceedings. Fourteenth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brisbane, Qld.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8512-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.1998.711218
