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Gesture processing with low resolution images with high resolution processing for optical character recognition for a reading machine

  • US 7,627,142 B2
  • Filed: 04/01/2005
  • Issued: 12/01/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of operating a portable reading machine, the method comprising:

  • receiving a low resolution image and a high resolution image of a scene;

    mapping the scene to a template of the scene, the template defining different portions of the scene and the template identifying at least one portion of the scene in which to recognize text; and

    processing by a computer the low resolution image to recognize a user-initiated gesture using a gesturing item that indicates a command from the user to the reading machine to process the image according to the template that defines the scene and the high resolution image to recognize text in at least the portion of the image of the scene, according to the command from the user to the machine and the template.

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