US 7,466,858 B2
Methods for slide image classification
Laurent Denoue, Palo Alto, Calif. (US); Matthew Cooper, San Francisco, Calif. (US); David Hillbert, Palo Alto, Calif. (US); John Adcock, Menlo Park, Calif. (US); and Daniel Billsus, San Francisco, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Apr. 28, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/116,484.
Prior Publication US 2006/0245616 A1, Nov. 02, 2006
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 382—170  [382/100] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device comprising:
a processor to analyze images of a video stream, wherein a height of text located in at least one predetermined edge region of the video stream is analyzed in the images to classify the images of the video stream as being slide images or non-slide images, wherein the edge region comprises the outermost north, east, west or south borders of the video stream; and
a memory to store the slide images.