CN1131493C - Display capture system - Google Patents
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Abstract
A computer system captures information from a television display digital signal. The digital signal is subjected to optical character recognition to allow the computer system to recognize characters displayed on that screen. The character information is then scanned for desired patterns associated with contact information. Once the contact information has been isolated, it may be stored or an immediate contact may be automatically implemented.
Description
Technical field
The present invention is usually relevant with computing machine, and is particularly relevant with the graphoscope capturing information from TV with realization.
Background technology
Before personal computer is just entering now is the stage that is captured by television receiver.So-called machine top personal computer (set top per sonal computer) and television receiver be alternately to provide normally function of personal computer of advanced programing function, digital television function and other, for example access internet with operate video games.Therefore, the user of machine top personal computer can have the function of TV and common personal computer function in its equipment.Machine top personal computer shows the two with TV screen: department of computer science's television receiver of unifying.
Computing machine also can show television image on the display of computing machine or monitor.Tuner card (tuner card) in computing machine can be used as television receiver, so TV programme may be displayed on the monitor of computing machine.
Contact information (contact information) is usually displayed in the TV programme, especially in television advertising.Many spectators are difficult to note contact information, and therefore before they found pen and paper, this information had just no longer shown.Therefore, advertiser can lose important chance, and spectators can lose desired information.
Similarly, some contact information can appear on the pages of Internet with image (being figure rather than mode word).This font or the figure of processing have meticulously just occurred wishing, as trade mark, situation.As seen, strengthen the computer user and keep that the ability of non-legible information is desirable on the display.
Summary of the invention
The invention provides and a kind ofly obtain the method for contact information from picture intelligence, comprising: the numeral that obtains a displayed image with computing machine; Identification character in described image; And in described character, locate contact information, so that can use described contact information to contact.
The present invention also provides a kind of computer system, includes: a processor; Storer is received described processor; One input media is received described processor; One television receiver is received described processor; One optical character recognition device, its arrangement are used for scanning and are used for producing the information of TV picture signal and discern contact information at described signal message; One coupling arrangement is received described processor, is used to use described contact information to contact.
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Fig. 1 illustrates the tv display screen that shows an advertisement;
Fig. 2 is a file of information capture from the screen that is shown in Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is a file that comprises capturing information from the screen that is shown in Fig. 1;
Fig. 4 is a computer system block scheme of realizing one embodiment of the present of invention;
Fig. 5 is the process flow diagram of a flow process of one embodiment of the invention.
Embodiment
The image that comprises contact information can be hunted down from the display of television image or computing machine, and can be processed it by computer system, makes it to be convenient to contact with the supplier of broadcasted content; This supplier can be the advertiser of TV programme.For example the common broadcast image of television advertising merchant is shown in the advertisement among Fig. 1, and it shows the various information of its product.These advertisements also can comprise contact information, for example name, address, telephone number and unified resource positioning address (URL); They can be used for contacting with advertiser or other guide supplier.
A demonstration of computer monitor also can comprise image, and this image includes in an image or the contact information in the graphics mode, for example uses an image graphics mode rather than a text mode.Contact information also can be used as for example part of internet web page.
According to an one aspect, the signal message that produces image on TV or graphoscope 10 is digitally caught.The telephone number that for example is drawn in display shown in Figure 1 10 can be recorded and provide with the form of digital document 12, as is shown in Fig. 2.Similarly, other information also can be caught from showing 10, and are placed on 15 li in corresponding territory according to the form of contact information.
Software can be determined with the method for logic detecting (logical henristics): any information is name, and what information is Business Name, and what information is the address, and what information is that telephone number and what information are the URL of internet.The common trait in each territory can exist in the program, whether belongs to certain specific territory to determine an information that provides.
Referring to Fig. 4, a machine top computer system 15 comprises a processor 16 of linking system storage 18 and north bridge 20.North bridge 20 can be linked bus 22 easily, and this bus 22 is connected with a display controller 24, and this display controller 24 is linked TV 25.Bus 22 also can be linked south bridge 26.This bridge 26 can be connected with hard disk drive 28, and hard disk drive 28 can comprise one or more programs 30 and 31; This can be an optical character recognition device (OCR) and a phone/address number code book program in being used to the embodiment of example.
South bridge 26 is then linked bus 32, and bus 32 can be linked serial input and output (SIO) port 34.Port 34 can be linked 36, one telephone dials 40 of a keyboard and a modulator-demodular unit 38.Basic Input or Output System (BIOS) (BIOS) 42 also can be linked bus 32.Certainly, other implementation methods are possible, and various optional feature and external unit can be linked a common machine top personal computer system.
Referring now to Fig. 5,, computer system 15 originates in the request of catching service of receiving, as indicating at square frame 44.This can be because the user clicks at a button on the display screen 24 or activates the result of a particular hot key on keyboard 36.This request is interpreted as requiring from TV display capture information.The image that is shown when request can digitally be hunted down by the operation of processor 16, as indicating at square frame 46.Then, captive digital image is given optical character recognition device, changes with optical character recognition 30, as is shown in square frame 48.The information of this software scans in digital image, and,, distinguish and get in touch the shape of image as numeral and alphabetical with known character.Then, its text mode of providing this image or graphics mode data is represented.
Computer system use heuristic approach is located the information corresponding to the contact information pattern, as is shown in square frame 50.For example, digital back follows letter can be identified as the address, and a pair ofly has a uppercase word, can be identified as name.Usually first word of name can be stored in the database, to help determining that a name is related to.Similarly, the particular order of numeral can be identified as telephone number, and certain lexicographic order can be identified as URL.
In case contact information is distinguished out that it can be shown to the user, for example on display screen; Whether the user can check the information that this is shown, be hunted down with definite desired information, as be shown in the square frame 52.The user can (square frame 52) insert corrigendum in a corrigendum window, thereby contact information is modified (square frame 53).For example, if return two telephone numbers, the user can point out which telephone number is desired.
Then, selected contact information can exist storer 18 or hard disk drive 28, as is shown in square frame 54.In some cases, wish then to contact, as be shown in square frame 56 with this contact information.Dialer 40 can automatically be activated and call out the telephone number of this storage.Another kind of situation, when URL is distinguished out, modulator-demodular unit 38 can be used for automatically contacting certain corresponding Internet Service Provider, and obtains desirable webpage.
In a single day contact information is hunted down out from TV shows, can automatically be added in the database of common software 31, and this software is used for editing contact information, for example the phone directory of software or address book.In case suitable territory has been distinguished out and be put into to information, the more such software catalogs that use after it just can offer and be used for, as be shown in square frame 58.These catalogues can provide searches or dialing or similarly function automatically.
The method of the more any prefix of computer system 15 usefulness and this area number of setting in advance, decision telephone number are local or long-distance.If calling out is trunk call, then can add dialing before stop.
Native system makes and provides content as doing advertisement in the television broadcasting or providing the contacting of informant of the mode of figure to become easy on webpage; It also makes in contact software and stores contact information, and for example address book and phone directory software become easy.
Though the present invention has only described an embodiment, those people that have been familiar with this technical ability will recognize the possibility of a large amount of modifications and distortion from it.Now attempt in subsidiary claims modification and the distortion of topped all that in spirit and scope of the invention.
Claims (14)
1, a kind of with the method for computing machine from picture intelligence acquisition contact information, comprising:
Obtain the numeral of a displayed image;
Identification character in described image; And
In described character, locate contact information, so that can use described contact information to contact.
2, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that: be included in telephone number in location in the described character, and automatically transfer to described telephone number.
3, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that: comprise internet address in location from described character, and automatically connect described internet address.
4, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that: comprise and store described contact information into computing machine.
5, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that: comprises providing contact information, allows the user to change this contact information to the user, and according to this contact information of information correction that comes from the user.
6, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that: comprise user command of identification, and based on the user command that receives, the numeral of the image that is showing when obtaining to receive user command.
7, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that: described contact information comprises telephone number.
8, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that: described contact information comprises internet address.
9, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that: comprise automatically described contact information is added to software address originally.
10, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that: this acquisition step comprises the numeral that obtains the TV displayed image.
11, the method for claim 1 is characterized in that: this acquisition step comprises the numeral of acquisition with the computing machine displayed image of graphic model.
12, a kind of computer system includes:
A processor;
Storer is received described processor;
One input media is received described processor;
One television receiver is received described processor;
One optical character recognition device, its arrangement are used for scanning and are used for producing the information of TV picture signal and discern contact information at described signal message;
One coupling arrangement is used to use described contact information to contact.
13, system as claimed in claim 12 is characterized in that: described coupling arrangement is a phone dialer.
14, system as claimed in claim 12 is characterized in that: described coupling arrangement is a modulator-demodular unit.
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