Patents by Inventor Charles Broadus

Charles Broadus has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method of creating an editable text and images from a captured image of a hand-drawn and/or static two-dimensional diagram
    Patent number: 10049476
    Abstract: A method of creating an editable image and editable text from a hand-drawn or other static two-dimensional diagram may include receiving a raw image from an image acquisition device; modifying the raw image to a modified image to reduce noise, normalize raw image data, and reduce pixels; recognizing horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines in the modified image using a line recognizer; connecting the lines in the modified image to form connected lines using a connector that detects and joins proximally positioned terminal ends of the lines in the modified image; recognizing areas bounded by the connected lines as bounded objects using a bounded object recognizer; and/or identifying and classifying the bounded objects using an object identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: TURBOPATENT,CORP.
    Inventors: Charles Broadus, Ben Demboski, Paul Watts, Masanori King Takee, James A Billmaier, Kristopher C Billmaier, David P Billmaier