Appeal No. 1998-0643
Application 08/196,028
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-5, 8-12, 19, 21, 22, and 26-
30. Claims 6, 7, 13-18, 20, 23-25, and 31-33 have been
canceled.
We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed inventions relate to: (1) a method of
isolating a word object (e.g., claim 1) by smearing the image
of the adjacent symbols of a word object together to form a
group of connected symbols and determining the boundaries of
the group of connected symbols to isolate the word object; and
(2) a method of determining the text baseline or text topline
(e.g., claim 26) using a histogram of the number of pixels
lying along a series of lines through the lines of text.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method of isolating a word object composed of
multiple adjacent symbols within data defining a first
image, comprising the steps of:
(a) producing a second image, as a function of the
first image, where the adjacent symbols which form the
word object are represented in the second image as having
at least one point of contact between one another,
thereby representing the word object as a group of
connected symbols;
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