CHARACTER AND IMAGE SEGMENTATION DEVICE, CHARACTER AND IMAGE SEGMENTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a means for segmenting each character section from image data easily and at a high speed.;SOLUTION: An image data input section 1011 receives image data showing a character string and region data showing a square region from a tablet PC 11. A binarizing section 1012 converts image data showing a color image to binarized image data showing a black and white image. An in-region image recognition section 1013 recognizes an in-region image constituted by continuous ON pixels in the square shown by the region data. An in-extended-region image recognition section 1014 recognizes an in-extended-region image by integrating an ON pixel group connected to the in-region data out of the square into the in-region data. An image data output section 1015 outputs data showing the in-extended-region image as image data showing one character to a character recognition section 12.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT