Separating Document Regions Using Preprinted Guides Or Markings Patents (Class 382/175)
  • Patent number: 11941307
    Abstract: A method for evaluating a print quality of a printed document that is printed by a printer is provided. The printer comprises a pre-print image scanner, a post-print image scanner, and a printhead disposed between the pre-print image scanner and the post-print image scanner. The method comprises generating a pre-printing image of a print media, generating the printed document, generating a post-printing image of the printed document, generating a validation image by comparing the post-printing image with the pre-printing image, and comparing the validation image with the source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Jose Fernando Sanchez Gutierrez, Ronald Schwallie, Thomas Axel Jonas Celinder, H Sprague Ackley
  • Patent number: 11936642
    Abstract: Embodiments herein include an intelligent electronic device (IED) by employing a multi-factor authentication process. In some embodiments, to change the access level of the IED, the user may use the password and additional inputs such as an off-site operator sending a command, or the user engaging a push button or switch local to the IED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Bowen, David J. Dolezilek
  • Patent number: 11893611
    Abstract: Vehicles and other items often have corresponding documentation, such as registration cards, that includes a significant amount of informative textual information that can be used in identifying the item. Traditional OCR may be unsuccessful when dealing with non-cooperative images. Accordingly, features such as dewarping, text alignment, and line identification and removal may aid in OCR of non-cooperative images. Dewarping involves determining curvature of a document depicted in an image and processing the image to dewarp the image of the document to make it more accurately conform to the ideal of a cooperative image. Text alignment involves determining an actual alignment of depicted text, even when the depicted text is not aligned with depicted visual cues. Line identification and removal involves identifying portions of the image that depict lines and removing those lines prior to OCR processing of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: EBAY INC.
    Inventors: Braddock Gaskill, Robinson Piramuthu
  • Patent number: 11860865
    Abstract: A computer system extracts contender values as positively associated with a pre-defined value from a compilation of one or more electronically stored semi-structured document(s) and/or one or more electronically stored unstructured document(s). The computer system performs a multi-dimensional analysis to narrow the universe of contender values from all words on a page of the compilation to the contender value(s) with the highest likelihood of being associated with the pre-defined value. The system's platform allows every user of the system to customize the system according to the user's needs. Various aspects can enable users to mine document stores for information that can be charted, graphed, studied, and compared to help make better decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: KOFAX, INC.
    Inventor: Ilker Kavas
  • Patent number: 11853628
    Abstract: Provided is an industrial printing system that performs distributed processing of security content in peer-to-peer variable printing for production printing. The variable attribute generation unit generates variable attribute information including content information of variable content for which a security level is set in variable data for variable printing. The security determination unit selects other print server capable of processing the variable content based on the security level of the content information of the variable attribute information generated by the variable attribute generation unit. The processing management unit requests the other print server selected by the security determination unit to process the variable content according to the security level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Taku Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11854173
    Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for finding multiple line features in an image. Two related steps are used to identify line features. First, the process computes x and y-components of the gradient field at each image location, projects the gradient field over a plurality subregions, and detects a plurality of gradient extrema, yielding a plurality of edge points with position and gradient. Next, the process iteratively chooses two edge points, fits a model line to them, and if edge point gradients are consistent with the model, computes the full set of inlier points whose position and gradient are consistent with that model. The candidate line with greatest inlier count is retained and the set of remaining outlier points is derived. The process then repeatedly applies the line fitting operation on this and subsequent outlier sets to find a plurality of line results. The process can be exhaustive RANSAC-based.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Cognex Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Feng Hsu, Lowell D. Jacobson, David Y. Li
  • Patent number: 11830255
    Abstract: A sign recognition system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure is configured to, when image data of a sign is captured by a vehicular camera, recognize one or more characters, which are included in the sign and belong to at least one specified character type, from the image data, thus extracting, from the image data, the recognized one or more characters. The sign recognition system is also configured to store a sign dataset in a sign database; the sign dataset includes (i) an installation-position information item indicative of the installation position of the sign, and (ii) an attribute information item about the sign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Usui, Tomoo Nomura
  • Patent number: 11831839
    Abstract: The technique of the present disclosure can achieve processing efficiency and prevention of improper drawing in printing a monochrome representation of color data. In performing discriminability reproducing color conversion processing, a PDL analysis unit determines whether processing involving color change that changes the original color is specified in operator information on a target object for the discriminability reproducing color conversion processing. In a case where processing that changes the original color, such as ROP or ?-blending, is specified for the target object, the discriminability reproducing color conversion processing for the page is canceled and switched to all-color uniform color conversion processing. This enables both of efficient discriminability reproducing color conversion and prevention of improper drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takuya Inoue
  • Patent number: 11830264
    Abstract: A processor may receive an image and identify a plurality of characters in the image using a machine learning (ML) model. The processor may generate at least one word-level bounding box indicating one or more words including at least a subset of the plurality of characters and/or may generate at least one field-level bounding box indicating at least one field including at least a subset of the one or more words. The processor may overlay the at least one word-level bounding box and the at least one field-level bounding box on the image to form a masked image including a plurality of optically-recognized characters and one or more predicted fields for at least a subset of the plurality of optically-recognized characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Dominic Miguel Rossi, Xiao Xiao
  • Patent number: 11809819
    Abstract: Various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing a form generation system are provided. Generating forms includes dynamic generation, personalization, and optimization of the forms based on automation objects that instruct on how to construct, structure and present forms for personalized data capture experiences. In operation, a form generator engine receives a request from a computing device to access a form. The form generator engine accesses form generation automation rules that are based on form generation parameters and automation objects. Using form generation automation rules, form generation parameters are used to generate automation objects including an annotated schema, a machine learning model, and a layout. Based on the form generation automation rules the automation objects are used to generate the form such that at least a field or a section of the form is selected based on a relevance score associated with field or section. The form is communicated for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mandeep Gandhi, Suvrat Chaturvedi, Deepak Kumar
  • Patent number: 11743408
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control method of an image reading device, an image reading device, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a program stored thereon, which avoid a reduction in reading resolution. The control method of the image reading device includes: a first step (ST101) of generating N line-shaped images indicating N line-shaped regions (W11) in an imaging target (T1) being conveyed in a conveying direction (X1) by imaging the N line-shaped regions (W11) extending in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction (X1); a second step (ST102) of performing the same step as the first step (ST101) at a point in time when the imaging target (T1) is conveyed by an amount associated to a width (11a) of N?1 line-shaped regions; and a step (ST103) of generating a read image by arranging the N line-shaped images generated in each of the steps in ascending order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuichiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11704921
    Abstract: Character recognition processing suitable to a handwritten character area and a printed character area among character areas in a scanned image of a document is performed. Next, character recognition results for the handwritten character area and character recognition results for the printed character area are integrated and a likelihood indicating a probability of being an extraction target is calculated for a candidate character string that is an extraction candidate among the integrated character recognition results and a character string that is the item value is determined. Then, at the time of the determination, different evaluation indications are used in a case where a character originating from the handwritten character area is included in characters constituting the candidate character string and in a case where such a character is not included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Enomoto
  • Patent number: 11691083
    Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a scavenger hunt. The systems and methods described herein involve receiving at an interface a list of a plurality of attractions, and communicating the list of the plurality of attractions to at least one device associated with a participant over a network. Scavenger hunt participants may then gather imagery of the required attractions. The systems and methods described herein then involve receiving imagery from the at least one participant and executing at least one computer vision procedure to determine whether the received imagery includes at least one of the plurality of attractions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Photo Butler Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Hewes, Carlson Craig, Zhikang Ding, Joseph C. Cuccinelli, Jr., David Benaim, Joe Regan, Tricia Chang, Andrew P. Goldfarb
  • Patent number: 11661619
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose apparatus, methods and software for performing biological screening and analysis implemented using an instrument platform capable of detecting a wide variety of cell-based secretions, expressed proteins, and other cellular components. The platform may be configured for simultaneous multiplexed detection of a plurality biological components such that a large number of discrete samples may be individually sequestered and evaluated to detect or identify constituents from the samples in a highly parallelized and scalable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: IsoPlexis Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Paczkowski, Sean Mackay, Sean McCusker
  • Patent number: 11601286
    Abstract: A signature verification platform includes: a locale classifying engine configured to decide a style of a signature by applying machine learning-based classification techniques to the signature that is input to the locale classifying engine; a parameter profile generating section configured to select a verification profile which suits the style decided by the locale classifying engine; and a verification engine configured to verify the signature using the verification profile selected by the parameter profile generating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joss Daniel Giffard-Burley
  • Patent number: 11568661
    Abstract: Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a method that includes receiving a plurality of images from an image capturing unit. Thereafter, an image evaluation process is executed on each of plurality of sections in each of the plurality of images. The image evaluation process includes performing optical character recognition (OCR) on each of the plurality of sections in each of the plurality of images to generate text corresponding to the plurality of respective sections. Further, the image evaluation process includes querying a linguistic database to identify one or more errors in the generated text. Further, the method includes modifying one or more image characteristics of each of the plurality of images and repeating the execution of the image evaluation process on the modified plurality of images until at least the calculated statistical score is less than a pre-defined statistical score threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventor: H. Sprague Ackley
  • Patent number: 11528429
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an evaluation unit configured to evaluate whether a first region of a captured image satisfies a quality condition, and a composition frame setting unit configured to set a different composition frame in the captured image in accordance with an evaluation result of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11514699
    Abstract: In an approach for a text block recognition in a document, a processor detects characters in the document using an object detection technique. A processor identifies positions of the detected characters in the document. A processor analyzes semantic connectivity among the detected characters based on the positions and semantic connectivity of the characters. A processor recognizes text blocks of related characters based on the semantic connectivity analysis. A processor outputs the text blocks associated with the related characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zhong Fang Yuan, Zhuo Cai, Tong Liu, Yu Pan, Li Ni Zhang, Jian Long Li
  • Patent number: 11503179
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory storing instructions and a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations. Four sides of a document included in captured image data are detected. Lengths of the detected four sides of the document are calculated. The operations further include determining which of a plurality of predefined paper sizes corresponds to the document based on the calculated lengths of the four sides. The determined corresponding paper size is set as a document size of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11494555
    Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for inferring certain texts as stylized section headings in an electronic document (ED). Stylized section headings are section headings that have unique styling distinct from the body of text below each stylized heading. In particular, the stylized section headings are identified based on styling information in the ED. Identifying stylized section headings includes grouping candidate headings based on identification of dominant styling, locating high level fragments, and repeatedly locating nested fragments from within higher level fragments. The ED may or may not include explicitly identified headings in the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Darrell Bellert
  • Patent number: 11475681
    Abstract: The present application discloses an image processing method, apparatus, electronic device and computer readable storage medium. The image processing method comprises detecting a text region in an image to be processed, recognizing the text region to obtain a text recognition result. In this application, the text recognition in the image to be processed is realized, the recognition manner for the text in the image is simplified, and the recognition effect for the text is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaobing Wang, Yingying Jiang, Xiangyu Zhu, Hao Guo, Yi Yu, Pingjun Li, Zhenbo Luo
  • Patent number: 11463602
    Abstract: An image processing method includes an acquisition step of acquiring image data by capturing printed matter, wherein first information and second information, indicating a type of the first information, are embedded in the printed matter as an electronic watermark, an extraction step of extracting the first information and the second information from the image data acquired at the acquisition step, and a processing step of processing the extracted first information by different processing methods in accordance with the extracted second information. Based on that the type of the first information indicated by the second information is a predetermined type, the extracted first information is processed at the processing step, by a predetermined processing method for access to an external device using the extracted first information and display of a web page based on the access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryoya Kawai
  • Patent number: 11335037
    Abstract: A method of automatically computing tool properties of a virtual paint brush includes obtaining an edge map from a digital image, wherein boundaries of objects in the image are detected, computing contours for the edge map, receiving a brush stroke of the virtual paint brush from a user at a point on a contour, and finding an object boundary that corresponds to the contour that received the brush stroke, computing a tangential slope of the object boundary at the point of the brush stroke, adjusting tool properties of the virtual paint brush based on a change in the tangential slope of the object boundary, and visually displaying the adjusted tool properties dynamically while the user is moving brush strokes around the object boundaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Rishu Aggarwal, Ajay Bedi
  • Patent number: 11265431
    Abstract: An object is to implement deletion of an already-input character string in a UI screen by a simpler operation without using a dedicated deletion button. An input character string is deleted in a case where a user selects the same character string as the character string used for a touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenta Inoue
  • Patent number: 11200413
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for table recognition in PDF documents are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes discretizing one or more contiguous areas of a PDF document; identifying one or more white-space separator lines within the one or more discretized contiguous areas of the PDF document; detecting one or more candidate table regions within the one or more discretized contiguous areas of the PDF document by clustering the one or more white-space separator lines into one or more grids; and outputting at least one of the candidate table regions as a finalized table in accordance with scores assigned to each of the one or more candidate table regions based on (i) border information and (ii) cell structure information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Ronald Burdick, Wei Cheng, Alexandre Evfimievski, Marina Danilevsky Hailpern, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Shajith Ikbal Mohamed, Prithviraj Sen, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan
  • Patent number: 11195008
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for data extraction. A target document representation may be generated based on modified text of a target electronic document. A measure of similarity may be determined between the target document representation and a reference document representation, which may be based on modified text of a reference electronic document. Based on the measure of similarity, the reference document representation may be selected. An extraction model associated with the selected reference document representation can then be used to extract data from the target document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventors: Changlin Zhang, Bryan Wang, Akshay Ukey, Sangam Singh
  • Patent number: 11183191
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to identify, from a character string recognition result for a form, a form feature that indicates at least a field in which the form is used or an attribute of a filling-out person filling out the form, accumulate past correction tendencies for character string recognition results for forms having respective identified form features, and obtain a correction tendency for a form having a form feature that is the same as the identified form feature from among the accumulated correction tendencies, and perform control to display a candidate correct expression for the character string recognition result for the form in accordance with the obtained correction tendency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Mami Iwanari
  • Patent number: 11080545
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for increasing a recognition rate of an optical character recognition (OCR) system is provided. The method includes preprocessing by receiving an image, and extracting all vertical lines from the image. The method includes adding vertical lines at character areas of the image, extracting all horizontal lines from the image, and creating an unlined image removing all the vertical/horizontal lines from the image. The method further includes determining a border of a vertical direction of the unlined image based on the total of pixels of rows in each column, and adding vertical/horizontal auxiliary lines between characters of the unlined image. The method also includes postprocessing by receiving garbled words of OCR output, removing noise after morphologically analyzing, replacing garbled letters with correct ones based on a frequent edit operation, and outputting the correct word, weighting results of image distance calculations based on machine learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kohichi Kamijoh, Akira Shimizu, Dai Sakai, Yuta Ishii
  • Patent number: 11061953
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure, implements method of extracting relevant sections from a plurality of documents by (a) receiving an input document from a user; (b) converting, the input document to a standard text file; (c) classifying, the standard text file to obtain a labelled text file associated with at least one cluster from a plurality of clusters; (d) extracting, from the labelled text file to obtain a plurality of relevant entities associated with at least one cluster in the plurality of clusters; (e) annotating, the standard text file by the extracted plurality of relevant entities to obtain an annotated enriched text file; (f) identifying, a plurality of section boundaries to obtain a sectioned data; and (g) extracting, relevant sections of the plurality of documents based on the plurality of relationship associated with the set of relevant entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Mahek Shah, Rajiv Srivastava, Girish Keshav Palsikhar
  • Patent number: 11048867
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for extracting tabular data from a document. The method includes identifying a bordered table or a borderless table in a received document and an image of the document. The tabular data in the identified bordered table is extracted using a first and a second set of pixel coordinates from the plurality of pixel coordinates. Further, upon identifying the borderless table in the document, a first set of document coordinates of at least one row of the borderless table is determined. Furthermore, a second set of document coordinates of the at least one column corresponding to the at least one row is determined. Finally, the tabular data in the identified borderless table is extracted from the document based on the determined first and second set of document coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventors: Amit Aggarwal, Krishna Prasad Yellapragada, Veena Srikanth Raje Urs
  • Patent number: 11044373
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus, comprises a document feeder to feed a document page by page, a scanner to scan the document fed by the document feeder and generate image data of the document, a printing apparatus to print images on recording media. An interface is configured to receive print settings and a test printing command. A controller is configured to control the document feeder to feed pages of the document according to the print settings when the test printing command is received, acquire image data of the pages of the document fed by the document feeder, and control the printing apparatus to print images in a test printing. The images in the test printing comprising image data of the pages of the document fed by the document feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiko Fujimori
  • Patent number: 11023494
    Abstract: An example embodiment of the invention provides a computer-implemented method of clustering data. The method comprises performing, by a clustering module, an nth pass of clustering on data to produce a plurality of nth clusters. A cluster analysis module calculates a plurality of components of each of the nth clusters and de-weights a largest component of each of the nth clusters to produce a plurality of de-weighted nth clusters. The clustering module performs an n+1th pass of clustering on the plurality of de-weighted nth clusters to produce a plurality of n+1th clusters. The method may be reiterated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Ismail Y Akhalwaya
  • Patent number: 10902253
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for continuously self-adapting an arrangement for automatically acquiring data from a document using a model. The method comprises: receiving raw data of a document containing a content item, the raw data including document content information representing the content item; interpreting the received raw data based on the model to generate interpretation data including interpreted content information of the content item of the document; validating and correcting the interpretation data of the document using the raw data to generate correction data of the document, the correction data including corrected content information of the content item of the document; analyzing the interpretation data, the raw data and the correction data of the document to determine whether to update the model or not; and updating the model content information of the model using the corrected content information of the correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventor: Rolf Jahn
  • Patent number: 10885325
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus extracts an area by performing an area analysis on an image, acquires a rule that defines a keyword and conditions of a value corresponding to the keyword, determines an order of specifying an area including the keyword and an area including the value corresponding to the keyword based on the acquired rule, firstly specifies the area including the keyword or the area including the value corresponding to the keyword from among the extracted area in accordance with the determined order, performs character recognition processing on the specified area, and secondly specifies the corresponding another area based on the acquired rule and the first specified area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Taeko Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10887491
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a scanner, a memory, and a processor. The scanner acquires a read image of an original document. The memory stores the read image of the original document that is acquired by the scanner. The processor detects a highlighted region including a region that is highlighted with a chromatic color in the read image of the original document which is stored in the memory and a circled region including a region circled by the chromatic color, and classifies the highlighted region as a region for first processing and classifies the circled region as a region for second processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Sadowara, Hiromasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10817759
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a character recognizing unit and a font type determining unit. The character recognizing unit is configured to determine a character code of a character in a text of a predetermined process unit in an image. The font type determining unit is configured to determine a font type of the character. Further, the font type determining unit performs a font type determining process; and in the font type determining process, (a) determines a font type on a character by character basis and (b) sets as a specific font type font types of all characters in a text of the predetermined process unit if a ratio of the number of characters with the specific font type to the number of all characters in the text of the predetermined process unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Mineyuki Tsuda
  • Patent number: 10812677
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an interface through which scanned image data obtained by scanning a designated region, is acquired, and a processor. The processor extracts a contour line representing a document area from the scanned image data, extracts vertices of the contour line, determines whether a plurality of original documents is present in the document area based on the vertices, extracts document image data of each original document from the scanned image data, and generates one file including the extracted document image data for each original document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiromasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10810743
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory configured to store layout data of a layout of a format, and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute first acquiring a captured image that includes a format region, detecting edges that are included in the captured image, second acquiring edge straight lines based on the edges, calculating a correction amount of the format region with reference to the layout based on the edges, selecting, as a selected straight line, an edge straight line that is outermost among the edge straight lines that form a rectangle, third acquiring a reference straight line that forms an outline of the format region based on the correction amount and the selected straight line, and specifying a format coordinate of the format region based on the reference straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masayoshi Hayashi, Kiyoto Kosaka
  • Patent number: 10747993
    Abstract: An example process described herein may involve capturing an image including a document; identifying a first part of the document, wherein the first part of the document is identified based on detecting an outline of the first part of the document; analyzing a first region of the image determined in relation to the first part of the document to detect a second part of the document based on an outline of the second part of the document; identifying the second part of the document based on detecting the first part of the document and analyzing the first region; combining the first part of the document with the second part of the document to generate object data associated with the document, wherein the object data includes data representative of a gap between the first part of the document and the second part of the document; and performing an action related to the object data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Pribble, Daniel Alan Jarvis, Nicholas Capurso
  • Patent number: 10706225
    Abstract: The present invention provides a form management system, comprising: a form building module, the form building module calling a word processing application software to obtain layout information of a form; and a common library building module, the common library building module building a correlation between a specific field of the form and default data of the specific field and storing the correlation in a common library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Inventor: Chen-Chung Yeh
  • Patent number: 10691936
    Abstract: A method for processing an electronic document (ED) to infer columns in the ED, where the ED comprises a plurality of characters. The method includes generating a mark-up version of the ED having text-layout attributes of the characters in the ED, where the characters are grouped into paragraphs based on the text-layout attributes, and each paragraph corresponds to a paragraph bounding box surrounding a corresponding paragraph, generating border pieces by initiating a pair of left scan and right scan from each paragraph bounding box to identify any adjacent paragraph bounding box, and generating, based at least on the border pieces, column borders for use in inferring the columns in the ED, where at least one column has a vertically aligned portion of the paragraphs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA LABORATORY U.S.A., INC.
    Inventor: Darrell Eugene Bellert
  • Patent number: 10671892
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method includes training a first machine learning model based on multiple documents and multiple templates associated with the multiple documents. The method further includes executing the first machine learning model to generate multiple relevancy masks, the multiple relevancy masks to remove a visual structure of the multiple templates from a visual structure of the multiple documents. The method further includes generating multiple multichannel field images to include the multiple relevancy masks and at least one of the multiple documents or the multiple templates. The method further includes training a second machine learning model based on the multiple multichannel field images and multiple non-native texts associated with the multiple documents. The method further includes executing the second machine learning model to generate multiple non-native texts from the multiple multichannel field images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Hyper Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Boris Nikolaev Daskalov, Daniel Biser Balchev
  • Patent number: 10565961
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method for dynamic contrast equalization for a see-through display subject to varying light conditions is provided. The method comprises: generating an intensity map for the field of view of the see-through display using a selected image portion of the retrieved image that is coextensive with the field of view of the see-through display; determining, using the intensity map, one or more sectors of the see-through display, on which a set of pixels corresponding to symbology in an overlay is to be displayed, that are in a high light intensity area; applying a filter to the see-through display at the one or more sectors of the see-through display to block a portion of light emanating from an external environment in the field of view of the see-through display; and displaying the overlay on the see-through display wherein the symbology is displayed over the one or more sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: John G. Suddreth, Jan Bilek
  • Patent number: 10523848
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a scanner, a memory, and a processor. The scanner acquires a read image of an original document. The memory stores the read image of the original document that is acquired by the scanner. The processor detects a highlighted region including a region that is highlighted with a chromatic color in the read image of the original document which is stored in the memory and a circled region including a region circled by the chromatic color, and classifies the highlighted region as a region for first processing and classifies the circled region as a region for second processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Sadowara, Hiromasa Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10482338
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a character recognition processing unit, an incorrect recognition index calculator, a certainty calculator, a direction determining unit, and an image processing unit. The incorrect recognition index calculator calculates incorrect recognition indexes. The incorrect recognition index is set based on a count of incorrect recognition characters. The count of incorrect recognition characters is a count of candidates for characters possibly incorrectly recognized when the documents are read. The incorrect recognition index is set such that recognition certainty indicative of accuracy of the recognition becomes smaller as the count of incorrect recognition characters increases. The certainty calculator adjusts the recognition certainty using the incorrect recognition index. The direction determining unit that determines a direction of the documents based on the adjusted recognition certainty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Toru Michigami
  • Patent number: 10481472
    Abstract: There is provided a method and device for projection parameter adjustment and a projection apparatus. The method comprises adjusting a projector in accordance with predetermined patterns sequentially, wherein the predetermined patterns correspond to respective projection parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lihua Geng
  • Patent number: 10318563
    Abstract: Described herein are an apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium. The apparatus including processing circuitry configured to extract a textual content included within a digital document, perform a text search using the extracted textual content on an indexed master document database to identify one or more master documents that are similar, within a pre-determined threshold, to the digital document, generate a candidate master document list using the one or more master documents identified based on the text search, extract a plurality of features of the digital document, perform a comparison, after performing the text search, of the plurality of features of the digital document with features of the one or more master documents in the candidate master document, and identify a master document of the one or more master documents that matches the digital document based on the comparison of the features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: LEAD TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Moe Daher, Waseem Shadid, Kousay Alani
  • Patent number: 10296559
    Abstract: When a reduction instruction is given to characters contained in a character region displayed in a wrapped-display mode, the display apparatus of the present invention determines whether or not the width of the reduction-instructed character region to which the reduction instruction has been made is equal to or less than the width of the screen. When the display apparatus determines that the width of the reduction-instructed character region is equal to or less than the width of the screen, the display apparatus controls to switch the wrapped-display mode to the partial region display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Kashibuchi
  • Patent number: 10268337
    Abstract: A method for automatically generating column layouts comprises obtaining, by a page layout computer, source code of an electronic document comprising content, in response to a request to activate a page layout of the electronic document and before receiving a first input indicating a modification to a layout of the electronic document, automatically inserting, by the page layout computer, a coded hierarchy into the source code of the electronic document specifying a single section and a single column including the content, receiving, by the page layout computer, the first input indicating the modification to the layout of the electronic document, based on the first input and by the page layout computer, modifying the source code, causing, by the page layout computer, generating an updated editing view of the electronic document that graphically represents the modification to the layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Atlassian Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Matt Ryall, Bill Arconati, Wesley Atwood Walser, Craig Thomas Petchell
  • Patent number: RE48003
    Abstract: An image display unit capable of displaying image data page-wise includes: a scanner portion; a display panel for displaying input image data in preview representation; an input condition determiner that compares the image data successively input through the scanner portion, as to input condition and determines whether there is any change in the image data input condition; and a display controller that, when the input condition determiner determines that the input image data has changed in the input condition, makes control such as to display the image data that was determined to have changed in the input condition and the image data input immediately before the image data in question, together on the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi Kimura, Kunihisa Chiba, Kazuyuki Ogida