BROWSING SYSTEM, SERVER, AND TEXT EXTRACTING METHOD

• US 20110142344A1
• Filed: 12/07/2010
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: FUKUSHIMA, Toshimitsu
• Application Number:
  US12/962,512
• Publication Number:
  US 20110142344A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/182
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/95 structured as a network, e.g. client-server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/10 Character recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/1456 based on user interactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/268 Lexical context

Abstract

In order to precisely extract a character in an image displayed at a terminal device in the case that an imaged web page is sent to the terminal device and the web page is browsed at the terminal device, a server acquires the web page from the Internet, generates the image from the acquired web page, and sends the image to a client terminal, the client terminal receives the image, displays the image on a display part, specifies a rectangular area, and sends information regarding the specified rectangular area to the server, and the server extracts the image in the rectangular area from the image of the web page, recognizes a text by an OCR process, extracts a text from a source of an HTML file which matches the recognized text most closely, and sends the extracted text to the client terminal.

Claims

1. A browsing system, comprising:

a terminal equipped with a display device; and

a server connected to the terminal, the terminal comprising;

a terminal side receiving device which receives image data sent from the server;

a display control device which causes the display device to display an image based on the received image data;

a selecting device which selects a predetermined area in the image displayed on the display device; and

a terminal side sending device which sends information regarding the selected predetermined area to the server, and the server comprising;

an acquiring device which acquires a source of a web page;

an image generating device which generates the image data of the web page based on the acquired source of the web page;

a server side sending device which sends the generated image data to the terminal;

a server side receiving device which receives the information regarding the predetermined area sent from the terminal;

a character recognizing device which recognizes a character from the image in the predetermined area by an OCR process based on the received information regarding the predetermined area and the generated image data; and

a character string extracting device which extracts a character string which is assumed to be the character recognized by the OCR process from the acquired source of the web page, wherein the server side sending device sends the extracted character string to the terminal, and the terminal side receiving device receives the sent character string.

2. The browsing system according to claim 1, wherein the server further comprises a determining device which determines whether or not the size of the predetermined area is equal to or more than a threshold value, and the server side sending device sends the character string recognized by the OCR process if the size of the predetermined area is determined not to be equal to or more than the threshold value.

3. The browsing system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal side sending device sends information of the coordinates of the predetermined area as the information regarding the predetermined area to the server, and the character recognizing device extracts the image in the predetermined area based on the generated image data and the information of the coordinates of the predetermined area and recognizes a character from the extracted image in the predetermined area.

4. The browsing system according to claim 2, wherein the terminal side sending device sends information of the coordinates of the predetermined area as the information regarding the predetermined area to the server, and the character recognizing device extracts the image in the predetermined area based on the generated image data and the information of the coordinates of the predetermined area and recognizes a character from the extracted image in the predetermined area.

5. The browsing system according to claim 1, wherein the character string extracting device compares the character recognized by the OCR process with texts contained in the acquired source and extracts the character string which matches the character recognized by the OCR process most closely.

6. The browsing system according to claim 2, wherein the character string extracting device compares the character recognized by the OCR process with texts contained in the acquired source and extracts the character string which matches the character recognized by the OCR process most closely.

7. The browsing system according to claim 3, wherein the character string extracting device compares the character recognized by the OCR process with texts contained in the acquired source and extracts the character string which matches the character recognized by the OCR process most closely.

8. The browsing system according to claim 4, wherein the character string extracting device compares the character recognized by the OCR process with texts contained in the acquired source and extracts the character string which matches the character recognized by the OCR process most closely.

9. The browsing system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal further comprises a storage device which stores the received character string.

10. The browsing system according to claim 2, wherein the terminal further comprises a storage device which stores the received character string.

11. The browsing system according to claim 3, wherein the terminal further comprises a storage device which stores the received character string.

12. The browsing system according to claim 4, wherein the terminal further comprises a storage device which stores the received character string.

13. The browsing system according to claim 5, wherein the terminal further comprises a storage device which stores the received character string.

14. The browsing system according to claim 6, wherein the terminal further comprises a storage device which stores the received character string.

15. The browsing system according to claim 7, wherein the terminal further comprises a storage device which stores the received character string.

16. The browsing system according to claim 8, wherein the terminal further comprises a storage device which stores the received character string.

17. The server of claim 1.

18. A text extracting method, comprising the steps of:

a step for receiving from a portable terminal a request to browse a web page;

a step for acquiring a source of a web page based on the received browsing request;

a step for generating image data of the web page based on the acquired source of the web page;

a step for receiving information regarding a predetermined area from the terminal;

a step for recognizing a character from the image in the predetermined area by an OCR process based on the received information regarding the predetermined area and the generated image data;

a step for extracting a character string from the acquired source which is assumed to be the character recognized by the OCR process; and

a step for sending the extracted character string to the terminal.

19. A programmable storage medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform the text extracting method according to claim 18.