Patents by Inventor Frances Haugen

Frances Haugen 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).

  • Patent number: 8526677
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a stereoscopic camera that generates 3D image data of a surrounding environment of the mobile device, a GPS module that determines a GPS location of the surrounding environment, a communication module that receives from a remote server a map of the surrounding environment based on the GPS location of the surrounding environment, and a processor. The processor determines a location of at least one object in the surrounding environment based on the 3D image data, compares the map of the surrounding environment with the location of the at least one object in the surrounding environment, and determines a current location of the mobile device on the map within the surrounding environment based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Mark Crichton, Frances Haugen
  • Patent number: 8482581
    Abstract: Text is extracted from a source image of a publication using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. A document is generated containing text segments of the extracted text. The document includes a control module that responds to user interactions with the displayed document. Responsive to a user selection of a displayed text segment, a corresponding image segment from the source image containing the text is retrieved and rendered in place of the selected text segment. The user can select again to toggle the display back to the text segment. Each text segment can be tagged with a garbage score indicating its quality. If the garbage score of a text segment exceeds a threshold value, the corresponding image segment can be automatically displayed instead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Google, Inc.
    Inventors: Viresh Ratnakar, Frances Haugen, Ashok Popat
  • Patent number: 8373724
    Abstract: Text is extracted from a source image of a publication using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. A document is generated containing text segments of the extracted text. The document includes a control module that responds to user interactions with the displayed document. Responsive to a user selection of a displayed text segment, a corresponding image segment from the source image containing the text is retrieved and rendered in place of the selected text segment. The user can select again to toggle the display back to the text segment. Each text segment can be tagged with a garbage score indicating its quality. If the garbage score of a text segment exceeds a threshold value, the corresponding image segment can be automatically displayed instead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Viresh Ratnakar, Frances Haugen, Ashok Popat
  • Publication number: 20130002710
    Abstract: Text is extracted from a source image of a publication using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. A document is generated containing text segments of the extracted text. The document includes a control module that responds to user interactions with the displayed document. Responsive to a user selection of a displayed text segment, a corresponding image segment from the source image containing the text is retrieved and rendered in place of the selected text segment. The user can select again to toggle the display back to the text segment. Each text segment can be tagged with a garbage score indicating its quality. If the garbage score of a text segment exceeds a threshold value, the corresponding image segment can be automatically displayed instead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Viresh Ratnakar, Frances Haugen, Ashok Popat
  • Publication number: 20100188419
    Abstract: Text is extracted from a source image of a publication using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. A document is generated containing text segments of the extracted text. The document includes a control module that responds to user interactions with the displayed document. Responsive to a user selection of a displayed text segment, a corresponding image segment from the source image containing the text is retrieved and rendered in place of the selected text segment. The user can select again to toggle the display back to the text segment. Each text segment can be tagged with a garbage score indicating its quality. If the garbage score of a text segment exceeds a threshold value, the corresponding image segment can be automatically displayed instead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Viresh Ratnakar, Frances Haugen, Ashok Popat