A patent application lodged by Google in July 2007 but recently made public seeks to patent a method where by computers can read and understand text in images and video.
A full copy of the patent application “Recognizing Text In Images” can be viewed here.
Some choice lines from the patent:
“Digital images can include a wide variety of content…For example, digital images can illustrate landscapes, people, urban scenes, and other objects. Digital images often include text. Digital images can be captured, for example, using cameras or digital video recorders. Image text (i.e., text in an image) typically includes text of varying size, orientation, and typeface. Text in a digital image derived, for example, from an urban scene (e.g., a city street scene) often provides information about the displayed scene or location. A typical street scene includes, for example, text as part of street signs, building names, address numbers, and window signs.”
If Google has found a way to index text in static images and video this is a great leap forward in the progression of search technology.
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