Gesture processing with low resolution images with high resolution processing for optical character recognition for a reading machine
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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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Abstract
A portable reading machine that operates in several modes and performs image preprocessing to prior to optical character recognition. The portable reading machine receives a low resolution image and a high resolution image of a scene and processing 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 and the high resolution image to recognize text in the image of the scene, according to the command from the user to the machine.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of operating a portable reading machine, the method comprising:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A computer program product tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium for operating a portable reading machine, the computer program product comprising instructions to:
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receive a low resolution image and a high resolution image of a scene; map 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; process 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 process 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. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A portable reading machine comprising:
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a computing device; an image input device coupled to the computing device for capturing low resolution images and high resolution images a computer readable medium storing a computer program product for operating a portable reading machine, the computer program product comprising instructions to; receive a low resolution image and a high resolution image of a scene from the image input device; map 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; process 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 process 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. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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