SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF PRINTED MATTER IN AN IMAGE

• US 20150371103A1
• Filed: 08/31/2015
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: EyeCue Vision Technologies LTD
• Original Assignee: EyeCue Vision Technologies LTD
• Inventors: KAFTORY, Ran
• Application Number:
  US14/840,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20150371103A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/90 Determination of colour characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/243 by compensating for image skew or non-uniform image deformations
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/255 Detecting or recognising potential candidate objects based on visual cues, e.g. shapes
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/40 Extraction of image or video features

Abstract

A system and method of identifying a printed matter in an image that includes the printed matter by rectifying the image, identifying a series of pre-defined areas in the image relative to a frame or other form in the printed matter in the image, and comparing a characteristic of the pre-defined area in the printed matter in the image, to a characteristic of a corresponding pre-defined area from a sample of printed matters.

Claims

1. A method of identifying a selection of an area of a printed matter in an image, comprising:

rectifying a portion of said image, said portion of said image including at least a first portion of said printed matter in said image;

identifying in said first portion of said printed matter in said image a plurality of pre-defined areas of said printed matter;

identifying in said first portion of said printed matter in said image a plurality of said pre-defined areas of said printed matter that are occluded in said image; and

identifying a pre-defined area of said printed matter in said image that is not occluded, wherein said pre-defined area of said printed matter that is not occluded in said image is at a known position relative to said plurality of said pre-defined areas of said printed matter that are occluded in said image.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said identifying a pre-defined area of said printed matter that is not occluded in said image, comprises comparing an image of said pre-defined area of said printed matter that is not occluded in said image to stored data about said pre-defined area of said printed matter.

3. The method according to claim 2, comprising activating a function by a processor, said function associated with said occluded area.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said pre-defined area of said printed matter in said images that is not occluded comprises pre-defined coordinates, and wherein said plurality of predefined areas of said printed matter that are occluded comprises pre-defined coordinates.