Handwritten Character Recognition for File Naming
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image forming apparatuses face difficulties in setting a file name desired by the user, as they often rely on OCR processing that may not extract the intended file name, leading to file names without specific meaning due to the use of high-frequency nouns.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that includes a determiner to identify handwritten areas, a recognizer to recognize handwritten characters, and a file generator to create a file name based on recognized characters, with an acquirer generating a file name when recognition is unsuccessful.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If OCR processing is performed to extract character strings from image data, then file name setting can be automated, but the extracted character strings may not include the desired file name
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the file naming process into two distinct pathways: OCR-based extraction for automated processing and handwritten character recognition for alternative automated processing. This segmentation allows the system to try multiple extraction methods and select the most appropriate one, preventing loss of the desired file name information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a handwritten character recognition system as an intermediary between the image data and file name generation. When OCR fails to extract the desired file_name, the handwritten character recognizer acts as a mediator to extract the file_name from handwritten annotations, ensuring the desired information is not lost.
2Productivity
If high-frequency nouns are combined to form a file_name, then file names can be generated automatically, but the file names lack specific meaning and are difficult to understand
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by detecting handwritten figures and recognizing handwritten characters before generating the file_name. This preliminary recognition of user-intended content (written in handwriting) ensures that the file_name has specific meaning and accurately reflects the document content, rather than relying solely on high-frequency nouns extracted later in the process.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes: a determiner that determines an area including a handwritten figure from image data; a recognizer that recognizes a handwritten character from the handwritten figure; an acquirer that acquires a file name; and a file generator that generates a file with a file name based on a handwritten character when the recognizer recognizes the handwritten character based on the image data and generates a file with the file name acquired by the acquirer when the recognizer does not recognize a handwritten character.