Patents Examined by Michael L Burleson
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Patent number: 11758072Abstract: A driver assistance system has a periphery monitoring device, a drive recorder, and an illuminance detecting section. The periphery monitoring device includes an imaging section that is mounted at a vehicle and captures images of a vehicle periphery, a memory, a processor that is coupled to the memory and that serves as a color tone correction processing section that corrects color tone of an image captured by the imaging section, and a display portion that displays an image having color tone that has been corrected by the color tone correction processing section. The drive recorder includes the imaging section, the memory, the processor that serves as the color tone correction processing section, and a recording section that records an image having color tone that has been corrected by the color tone correction processing section.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yukihisa Yamada
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Patent number: 11736642Abstract: A reading portion generates an original image including an image of a document sheet. A first document sheet end detection portion, in a case where the thickness of the document sheet is equal to or greater than a threshold value, identifies a peripheral edge shape of the document sheet by detecting a shadow portion that occurs at a peripheral edge portion of the document sheet in the original image. A second document end detection portion, in a case where the thickness of the document sheet is less than a threshold value, identifies the peripheral edge shape based on a specification by the user. A document sheet size determination portion determines a size of the document sheet according to a result of shape identification by the first document sheet end detection portion or a result of shape identification by the second document sheet end detection portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Nozomu Inami
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Patent number: 11722620Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes at least one first processor and at least one first memory coupled to the first processor and having stored thereon instructions, when executed by the first processor, and cooperating to act as a determination unit configured to determine whether a password set to the image forming apparatus is an initial password, a lock function setting unit configured to enable a lock function preventing the setting of the image forming apparatus from being changed with an operation unit or an operation screen of the image forming apparatus, and a control unit configured to perform control so that a screen of a setting to operate the image forming apparatus via a client terminal is not displayed in response to the password being the initial password as the password.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shinichi Chiba
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Patent number: 11720961Abstract: An automated method and system for validating (cross-validating) data fields in an electronic document, such as a document that has been passed through an optical character recognition (“OCR”) or Intelligent Document Recognition (“IDR”) system or software, to improve accuracy of the electronic document.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SOFTWORKS AI, LLCInventors: Ari Gross, Matthew Joshua Khan Persad, Yunhao Shi, Perry Kangoun, Talya Klein
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Patent number: 11710328Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying a presence of a completed document are disclosed. The system may receive an image file from a client device associated with a first document, identify one or more image regions within the image file corresponding to a presence of one or more extractable data entries, selectively extract the one or more extractable data entries, and determine whether the one or more extractable data entries match one or more stored data entries. When the one or more extractable data entries match, the system may determine the status of the first document as completed. When the one or more extractable data entries do not match, the system may proactively replace one or more inconsistent extractable data entries with corresponding stored data entries to form a corrected first document, and generate a request for a client to verify the corrected first document.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLCInventors: Fnu Manjushri Srikanta Swamy, Gowtham Guduru, Joshua Havens, Aaron Attar, Rahul Nowlakha
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Patent number: 11710012Abstract: A digital printing process for printing an image (I) including a white area (W) and/or a coloured area (C) on a packaging material includes selecting a packaging material with a substantially white side, and preparing print data to be sent to a printing means taking into account that the side of the packaging material is substantially white. The print data represents one or more first image areas (A1) representing the image (I), and one or more second image areas (A2) representing a packaging look (L), to be printed on the substantially white side of the packaging material, outside the one or more first image areas (A1) where the image (I) is to be located. The method further includes printing by the printing means on the substantially white side of the packaging material using the print data.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: XEIKON MANUFACTURING NVInventors: Lode Erik Dries Deprez, Jürgen Norbert Bart Devlieghere, Roel De Mondt, Romain Jan Victor Paul Van Der Gucht, Tom Rik May Broeckx
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Patent number: 11704921Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Makoto Enomoto
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Patent number: 11699296Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire an image corresponding to a key character string from a target image in response to the key character string that serves as a character string specified beforehand as a key and is acquired from results of character recognition performed on the target image including character strings; extract, by using results of acquiring the image corresponding to the key character string, from the results of the character recognition a value character string that serves as a character string indicating a value corresponding to the key character string; and output the key character string and the value character string corresponding to the key character string.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Daisuke Tatsumi, Manabu Ueda, Akane Abe, Jun Ando
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Patent number: 11670102Abstract: A system can merge text bounding boxes such as Optical Character Recognition (OCR) bounding boxes. A document can comprise a plurality of the text bounding boxes. Distance thresholds between text bounding boxes can be utilized for comparison against a distance threshold. Distance thresholds can vary depending on context information associated with the document. In response to a determination that text bounding boxes satisfy the distance threshold, the text bounding boxes can be assigned to a bounding box group.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventor: Xiaodong Yu
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Patent number: 11665291Abstract: An MFP is configured to perform an upper limit setting process of setting an upper limit value of scan data amount storable in a RAM, a scanning process of controlling a scanning device to generate scan data of one document medium and store the scan data in the RAM, a determining process of determining, after performing the scanning process, whether an amount of the scan data accumulated in the storage exceeds the upper limit value, when determining that the amount of the scan data exceeds the upper limit value, a transmitting process of inhibiting the scanning process and transmitting the scan data accumulated in the RAM to a server through a communication device, and a releasing process of deleting the scan data accumulated in the RAM and releasing inhibition of the scanning process after performing the transmitting process.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tetsuya Okuno
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Patent number: 11651526Abstract: An apparatus and corresponding method for frontal face synthesis. The apparatus comprises a decoder that synthesizes a high-resolution (HR) frontal-view (FV) image of a face from received features of a low-resolution (LR) non-frontal-view (NFV) image of the face. The HR FV image is of a higher resolution relative to a lower resolution of the LR NFV image. The decoder includes a main path and an auxiliary path. The auxiliary path produces auxiliary-path features from the received features and feeds the auxiliary-path features produced into the main path for synthesizing the HR FV image. The auxiliary-path features represent a HR NFV image of the face at the higher resolution. As such, an HR identity-preserved frontal face can be synthesized from one or many LR faces with various poses and may be used in types of commercial applications, such as video surveillance.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Northeastern UniversityInventors: Yun Fu, Yu Yin
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Patent number: 11650778Abstract: A method of controlling an information processing apparatus includes displaying an edit screen including an obtained image and a print range frame based on obtained print setting information, accepting an edit operation of arrangement of the image in the edit screen, generating image data based on an edited image, and transmitting the generated image data and the print setting information to the image forming apparatus as a print job. Where the image has been edited such that there is a region where the image is not arranged in the print range frame, combining processing in which a predetermined image is added in the region is performed and whereby image data including the image and predetermined image is generated, and where the image has been edited such that there is no region where the image is not arranged in the print range frame, the combining processing is not performed.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tadanobu Fujita
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Patent number: 11631263Abstract: Systems and methods for performing spatial line grouping on digital ink stokes. The system includes an electronic processor configured to access a set of hypothetical lines in an electronic document and determine a set of hypothetical line pairings. The electronic processor is also configured to determine, via a gradient boosting tree model, a merge confidence score for each hypothetical line pairing and compare a first merge confidence score with a merge threshold. The first merge confidence score is associated with a first hypothetical line and a first neighboring hypothetical line. The electronic processor is also configured to, in response to the first merge confidence score satisfying the merge threshold, merge the first hypothetical line and the first neighboring hypothetical line to form a first line grouping. The electronic processor is also configured to perform a digital ink stroke analysis on the electronic document based on the first line grouping.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Biyi Fang, Sheng Yi, Tianyi Chen
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Patent number: 11613140Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for printing vibrant grey color(s) on plastic cards. The following features, which can be used individually or in any combination thereof, can be implemented to achieve the vibrant grey color(s): 1) use of CMYK pigment inks to achieve CMYK printing; 2) a pixel extraction process and/or a print trapping process; 3) two separate print commands including a CMY (or CMYK)+blending print command and a K+blending print command; and 4) proper card set-up.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Entrust CorporationInventors: Miguel Ayala, Heather Maershbecker, Rajesh K. Juriasingani, John Knaack, Wade Kragtorp
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Patent number: 11600130Abstract: An apparatus configured to perform or control obtaining or causing obtaining an image of at least a part of a surface of a document. The apparatus deriving or causing the derivation of a representation of the at least a part of the surface from the image. The representation comprising a set of values respectively representing a corresponding set of height levels. The apparatus generates or causes the generating of a string of characters based on the representation of the part of the surface. The string of characters comprising a first portion representative of the set of height levels of the corresponding sections of the part of the surface and a second portion generated based on a function of the representation and/or of the first portion of the string of characters. The apparatus associates or causes the associating of information representing the string of characters with identification information of the document.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Deutsche Post AGInventors: Ali Özyigit, Baris Cem Sal
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Patent number: 11588950Abstract: Provided is a printing device that can accurately perform printing on a recording medium. The printing device includes: a frame member disposed to surround a nail tip; a printing unit configured to perform printing on the nail tip surrounded by the frame member; a communication part configured to acquire print information which is generated based on an image obtained by capturing the frame member and the nail tip and indicates a layout of printing to be applied to the nail tip in a printable region defined by the frame member; and a print control part configured to control the printing unit based on the acquired print information.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Sakai, Yoshihiko Imura
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Patent number: 11571130Abstract: Tissue surface tracking of tissue features is disclosed. First surface imaged features are tracked based on the first and second time spaced images at a first wavelength. Second surface imaged features are tracked based on the first and second time spaced tissue surface images at the second wavelength. Tracking metrics are obtained based on the tracking steps. The tracking steps are combined to provide a combined tracking metric. The combined tracking metric is used in a tissue surface navigation application.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Alessandra Di Tullio, Franciscus Hendrikus Van Heesch, Caifeng Shan
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Patent number: 11568666Abstract: A method, system and computer program for automatic, highly accurate machine scans of unstructured text data sources, like information kept or displayed in Web browsers, WORD, POWERPOINT, EXCEL, PDF, and other documents, with the ability to detect, isolate and extract specific text information from unknown and varying locations within the unstructured text data. The system uses multiple human-vision-like but electronic scans of the unstructured data using artificial intelligence techniques to locate, and extract required information despite varying conditions, like unknown number of pages, unknown sequence of pages, unknown data layouts and data arrangements, unknown number, lengths and indentations of sections/paragraphs, and in case of tabular data, unknown number of rows and column sequences in the unstructured text data source.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Instaknow.com, IncInventor: Pramod Khandekar
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Patent number: 11562554Abstract: A technique for improving the computational time for performing a non-maximum suppression operation may include receiving a request to perform a non-maximum suppression operation on a set of candidate predictions of a computing task, and performing a statistical analysis on a set of confidence scores corresponding to the set of candidate predictions to determine a standard deviation of the set of confidence scores. A confidence score threshold can be determined based on the standard deviation. Candidate predictions having a confidence score below the confidence score threshold can then be discarded to form a reduced set of candidate predictions. Additional candidate predictions can be discarded from the reduced set of candidate predictions based on an intersection-over-union overlap metric, and the remaining candidate predictions from the reduced set of candidate predictions can be provided as a result of the non-maximum suppression operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Abinash Mohanty, Randy Renfu Huang
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Patent number: 11557051Abstract: System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to training a depth model for joint depth completion and prediction. In one arrangement, a method includes generating depth features from sparse depth data according to a sparse auxiliary network (SAN) of a depth model. The method includes generating a first depth map from a monocular image and a second depth map from the monocular image and the depth features using the depth model. The method includes generating a depth loss from the second depth map and the sparse depth data and an image loss from the first depth map and the sparse depth data. The method includes updating the depth model including the SAN using the depth loss and the image loss.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Vitor Guizilini, Rares A. Ambrus, Adrien David Gaidon