Patents by Inventor Feras Moussa

Feras Moussa 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).

  • Associating optical character recognition text data with source images
    Patent number: 8411956
    Abstract: A system and method for associating optical character recognition text data with source images are provided. In one embodiment, an association module of a computing system is configured to receive text data from an OCR engine; associate the text data with a source image; and output associated optical character recognition data including the source image, the text data associated with the source image, and a plurality of referrers. Each referrer of the plurality of referrers may indicate a different image reference. The plurality of referrers are configured to cause the viewer application to output the text data associated with the source image to each instance of the source image that is rendered as part of the fixed-layout document in accordance with the multiple image references.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jesse McGatha, Feras Moussa
  • ASSOCIATING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION TEXT DATA WITH SOURCE IMAGES
    Publication number: 20100080493
    Abstract: A system and method for associating optical character recognition text data with source images are provided. In one embodiment, an association module of a computing system is configured to receive text data from an OCR engine; associate the text data with a source image; and output associated optical character recognition data including the source image, the text data associated with the source image, and a plurality of referrers. Each referrer of the plurality of referrers may indicate a different image reference. The plurality of referrers are configured to cause the viewer application to output the text data associated with the source image to each instance of the source image that is rendered as part of the fixed-layout document in accordance with the multiple image references.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jesse McGatha, Feras Moussa