US Patent Issued to CANAAN BRIGHT SIGHT on Oct. 14 for "Character segmentation method and device based on edge detection and contour detection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,220, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CANAAN BRIGHT SIGHT Co. LTD (Beijing).

"Character segmentation method and device based on edge detection and contour detection" was invented by Chenghai Huo (Beijing) and Nangeng Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A character segmentation method and apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes converting a character area image into a grayscale image; converting the grayscale image into an edge binary image by edge detection; acquiring character box segmentation blocks from the edge binary image by projection; and determining a target character a...