Entering information through an OCR-enabled viewfinder
First Claim
1. A method for facilitating text entry for an electronic device, the method comprising:
- activating a field for text entry on a display of the electronic device;
displaying a current frame on the display associated with a viewfinder of the electronic device concurrently while also displaying the activated field for text entry;
determining an area of interest in the current frame;
recognizing text in the area of interest associated with the current frame, wherein recognizing text in the area of interest is performed without capturing the current frame in the viewfinder and without persisting in storage the current frame; and
displaying text corresponding to the recognized text in the activated field.
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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.
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25 Claims
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1. A method for facilitating text entry for an electronic device, the method comprising:
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activating a field for text entry on a display of the electronic device; displaying a current frame on the display associated with a viewfinder of the electronic device concurrently while also displaying the activated field for text entry; determining an area of interest in the current frame; recognizing text in the area of interest associated with the current frame, wherein recognizing text in the area of interest is performed without capturing the current frame in the viewfinder and without persisting in storage the current frame; and displaying text corresponding to the recognized text in the activated field. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An electronic device for entering text into a text field, the electronic device comprising:
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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 text entry on the display of the electronic device; displaying a current frame on the display concurrently while also displaying the activated field for text entry, wherein the current frame is associated with a viewfinder; determining an area of interest associated with the viewfinder; recognizing text in the determined area of interest associated with the current frame, wherein recognizing text in the determined area of interest is performed without capturing the current frame in the viewfinder and without persisting in storage the current frame; and displaying text corresponding to the recognized text in the activated field. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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