Entering Information Through an OCR-Enabled Viewfinder
First Claim
1. A method for facilitating object/text entry for an electronic device, the method comprising:
- activating a field for object/text entry on a display of the electronic device;
displaying a current frame on the display associated with a viewfinder of the electronic device;
determining an area of interest;
recognizing an object in the area of interest associated with the current frame; and
inserting a copy of the object in the activated field.
5 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
An improved method for entering text or objects into fields is provided. Instead of a keyboard, a viewfinder provides text segmenting, text selecting and text recognizing (optical character recognition—OCR) functionalities. Text at a marker (e.g., a cursor or crosshairs) associated with the viewfinder is recognized and insertion of the recognized text is performed. The current frame is generally not captured by a user. As the user moves the camera to position a new word at the marker, the view finder is updated to provide results of recognition associated with the new word. A user is able to identify an area of interest, select text or other object of interest, and insert the same into one or more fields. The viewfinder may operate in conjunction with a camera of the electronic device on which the viewfinder is operating. Other mechanisms and variations are described.
20 Citations
27 Claims
-
1. A method for facilitating object/text entry for an electronic device, the method comprising:
-
activating a field for object/text entry on a display of the electronic device; displaying a current frame on the display associated with a viewfinder of the electronic device; determining an area of interest; recognizing an object in the area of interest associated with the current frame; and inserting a copy of the object in the activated field. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
-
-
20. An electronic device for entering text into a text field, the electronic device comprising:
-
a processor; a display in electronic communication with the processor; a memory in electronic communication with the display and the processor, the memory configured with instructions to perform a method, the method including; activating a field for object entry on the display of the electronic device; displaying a current frame on the display, wherein the current frame is associated with a viewfinder; determining an area of interest associated with the viewfinder; and inserting information derived from the area of interest in the activated field. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
-
Specification