US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Aug. 25 for "Method, computer-readable medium, and electronic device for image text recognition" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,324, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method, computer-readable medium, and electronic device for image text recognition" was invented by Leihao Xia (Shenzhen, China) and Ping Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image text recognition method includes converting an image into a grayscale image, and segmenting, according to layer intervals to which grayscale values of pixels in the grayscale image belong, the grayscale image into grayscale layers with one corresponding to a layer interval, performing image erosion on a grayscale layer to obtain a feature layer corres...