Patents by Inventor Chengquan Zhang
Chengquan Zhang 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).
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Publication number: 20210224568Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for recognizing a text. The method comprises: acquiring images of a text area of an input image, the acquired images including a text centerline graph, a text direction offset graph, a text boundary offset graph, and a text character classification graph; extracting coordinates of feature points of a character center from the text centerline graph; sorting the extracted coordinates of the feature points based on the text direction offset graph to obtain a coordinate sequence of the feature points; determining a polygonal bounding box of the text area based on the coordinate sequence of the feature points of the character center and the text boundary offset graph; and determining a classification result of the feature points of the character center, based on the coordinate sequence of the feature points of the character center and the text character classification graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaoqiang Zhang, Pengyuan LV, Shanshan Liu, Chengquan Zhang
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Publication number: 20210209401Abstract: A character recognition method, a character recognition apparatus, an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium are disclosed. The character recognition method includes: determining semantic information and first position information of each individual character recognized from an image; constructing a graph network according to the semantic information and the first position information of each individual character; and determining a character recognition result of the image according to a feature of each individual character calculated by the graph network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., LTDInventors: Xiaoqiang Zhang, Chengquan Zhang, Shanshan Liu
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Publication number: 20210201182Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for performing a structured extraction on a text, a device and a storage medium. The method may include: performing a text detection on an entity text image to obtain a position and content of a text line of the entity text image; extracting multivariate information of the text line based on the position and the content of the text line; performing a feature fusion on the multivariate information of the text line to obtain a multimodal fusion feature of the text line; performing category and relationship reasoning based on the multimodal fusion feature of the text line to obtain a category and a relationship probability matrix of the text line; and constructing structured information of the entity text image based on the category and the relationship probability matrix of the text line.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Yulin LI, Xiameng Qin, Chengquan Zhang, Junyu Han, Errui Ding, Tian Wu, Haifeng Wang
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Patent number: 10963693Abstract: A method and apparatus for training a character detector based on weak supervision, a character detection system and a computer readable storage medium are provided, wherein the method includes: inputting coarse-grained annotation information of a to-be-processed object, wherein the coarse-grained annotation information including a whole bounding outline of a word, text bar or line of the to-be-processed object; dividing the whole bounding outline of the coarse-grained annotation information, to obtain a coarse bounding box of a character of the to-be-processed object; obtaining a predicted bounding box of the character of the to-be-processed object through a neural network model from the coarse-grained annotation information; and determining a fine bounding box of the character of the to-be-processed object as character-based annotation of the to-be-processed object, according to the coarse bounding box and the predicted bounding box.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chengquan Zhang, Jiaming Liu, Junyu Han, Errui Ding
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Publication number: 20210004629Abstract: The present disclosure proposes an end-to-end text recognition method and apparatus, computer device and readable medium. The method comprises: obtaining a to-be-recognized picture containing a text region; recognizing a position of the text region in the to-be-recognized picture and text content included in the text region with a pre-trained end-to-end text recognition model; the end-to-end text recognition model comprising a region of interest perspective transformation processing module for performing perspective transformation processing for the text region. The technical solution of the present disclosure does not need to serially arrange a plurality of steps, and may avoid introducing the accumulated errors and may effectively improve the accuracy of the text recognition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yipeng SUN, Chengquan ZHANG, Zuming HUANG, Jiaming LIU, Junyu HAN, Errui DING
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Publication number: 20200327384Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for detecting text regions in an image, a device, and a medium. The method may include: detecting, based on feature representation of an image, a first text region in the image, where the first text region covers a text in the image, a region occupied by the text being of a certain shape; determining, based on a feature block of the first text region, text geometry information associated with the text, where the text geometry information includes a text centerline of the text and distance information of the centerline from the upper and lower borders of the text; and adjusting, based on the text geometry information associated with the text, the first text region to a second text region, where the second text region also covers the text and is smaller than the first text region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2019Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Chengquan Zhang, Zuming Huang, Mengyi En, Junyu Han, Errui Ding
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Patent number: 10769484Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to a character detection method and apparatus. In some embodiments, the method includes: using an image including an annotated word as an input to a machine learning model; selecting, based on a predicted result of characters inside an annotation region of the annotated word predicted and annotation information of the annotated word, characters for training the machine learning model from the characters inside the annotation region of the annotated word predicted; and training the machine learning model based on features of the selected characters. This implementation manner implements the full training of a machine learning model by using existing word level annotated images, to obtain a machine learning model capable of detecting characters in images, thereby reducing the costs for the training of a machine learning model capable of detecting characters in images.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., LtdInventors: Chengquan Zhang, Han Hu, Yuxuan Luo, Junyu Han, Errui Ding
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Patent number: 10762376Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting text are provided. The method includes: extracting features of a to-be-detected image; predicting using a character detection network a probability of each pixel point in the to-be-detected image being a character pixel point, and position information of each pixel point relative to a bounding box of a character including the pixel point when the pixel point is the character pixel point; determining position information of bounding boxes of candidate characters based on the prediction result of the character detection network; inputting the extracted features into a character map network, converting a feature map outputted by the character map network, and generating character vectors; determining a neighboring candidate character of each candidate character, and connecting each candidate character with an associated neighboring candidate character to form a character set; and determining a character area of the to-be-detected image.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiaming Liu, Chengquan Zhang, Junyu Han, Errui Ding
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Publication number: 20200250416Abstract: A method and apparatus for training a character detector based on weak supervision, a character detection system and a computer readable storage medium are provided, wherein the method includes: inputting coarse-grained annotation information of a to-be-processed object, wherein the coarse-grained annotation information including a whole bounding outline of a word, text bar or line of the to-be-processed object; dividing the whole bounding outline of the coarse-grained annotation information, to obtain a coarse bounding box of a character of the to-be-processed object; obtaining a predicted bounding box of the character of the to-be-processed object through a neural network model from the coarse-grained annotation information; and determining a fine bounding box of the character of the to-be-processed object as character-based annotation of the to-be-processed object, according to the coarse bounding box and the predicted bounding box.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chengquan Zhang, Jiaming Liu, Junyu Han, Errui Ding
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Patent number: 10643066Abstract: A method and apparatus for training a character detector based on weak supervision, a character detection system and a computer readable storage medium are provided, wherein the method includes: inputting coarse-grained annotation information of a to-be-processed object, wherein the coarse-grained annotation information including a whole bounding outline of a word, text bar or line of the to-be-processed objected; dividing the whole bounding outline of the coarse-grained annotation information, to obtain a coarse bounding box of a character of the to-be-processed object; obtaining a predicted bounding box of the character of the to-be-processed object through a neural network model from the coarse-grained annotation information; and determining a fine bounding box of the character of the to-be-processed object as character-based annotation of the to-be-processed object, according to the coarse bounding box and the predicted bounding box.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chengquan Zhang, Jiaming Liu, Junyu Han, Errui Ding
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Patent number: 10632136Abstract: A soluble dietary fiber having a xylooligosaccharide purity of 70% or greater. The xylooligosaccharide has a total xylobiose and xylotriose content of 45% or great. The soluble dietary fiber has a higher content of an effective component, thus improving the proliferation of a Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus, and significantly reducing blood glucose.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: SHANDONG LONGLIVE BIO-TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Shaobo Cheng, Lin Xiao, Shulin Qin, Ruirui Xia, Xianfu Liu, Jinlong Yan, Ying Li, Lingjun Kong, Yan Wang, Zhiguang Zou, Chengquan Zhang
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Publication number: 20190272438Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting text are provided. The method includes: extracting features of a to-be-detected image; predicting using a character detection network a probability of each pixel point in the to-be-detected image being a character pixel point, and position information of each pixel point relative to a bounding box of a character including the pixel point when the pixel point is the character pixel point; determining position information of bounding boxes of candidate characters based on the prediction result of the character detection network; inputting the extracted features into a character map network, converting a feature map outputted by the character map network, and generating character vectors; determining a neighboring candidate character of each candidate character, and connecting each candidate character with an associated neighboring candidate character to form a character set; and determining a character area of the to-be-detected image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2018Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicant: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiaming Liu, Chengquan Zhang, Junyu Han, Errui Ding
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Publication number: 20190205638Abstract: A method and apparatus for training a character detector based on weak supervision, a character detection system and a computer readable storage medium are provided, wherein the method includes: inputting coarse-grained annotation information of a to-be-processed object, wherein the coarse-grained annotation information including a whole bounding outline of a word, text bar or line of the to-be-processed objected; dividing the whole bounding outline of the coarse-grained annotation information, to obtain a coarse bounding box of a character of the to-be-processed object; obtaining a predicted bounding box of the character of the to-be-processed object through a neural network model from the coarse-grained annotation information; and determining a fine bounding box of the character of the to-be-processed object as character-based annotation of the to-be-processed object, according to the coarse bounding box and the predicted bounding box.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd .Inventors: Chengquan Zhang, Jiaming Liu, Junyu Han, Errui Ding
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Publication number: 20180296581Abstract: A soluble dietary fiber having a xylooligosaccharide purity of 70% or greater. The xylooligosaccharide has a total xylobiose and xylotriose content of 45% or great. The soluble dietary fiber has a higher content of an effective component, thus improving the proliferation of a bifidobacterium and lactobacillus, and significantly reducing blood glucose.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2016Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: SHANDONG LONGLIVE BIO-TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Shaobo CHENG, Lin XIAO, Shulin QIN, Ruirui XIA, Xianfu LIU, Jinlong YAN, Ying LI, Lingjun KONG, Yan WANG, Zhiguang ZOU, Chengquan ZHANG
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Publication number: 20180189604Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to a character detection method and apparatus. In some embodiments, the method includes: using an image including an annotated word as an input to a machine learning model; selecting, based on a predicted result of characters inside an annotation region of the annotated word predicted and annotation information of the annotated word, characters for training the machine learning model from the characters inside the annotation region of the annotated word predicted; and training the machine learning model based on features of the selected characters. This implementation manner implements the full training of a machine learning model by using existing word level annotated images, to obtain a machine learning model capable of detecting characters in images, thereby reducing the costs for the training of a machine learning model capable of detecting characters in images.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2017Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Chengquan Zhang, Han Hu, Yuxuan Luo, Junyu Han, Errui Ding