Patents by Inventor Glen Berntson

Glen Berntson 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).

  • CLIENT SIDE FILTERING OF CARD OCR IMAGES
    Publication number: 20150139506
    Abstract: The technology of the present disclosure includes computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and systems to filter images before transmitting to a system for optical character recognition (“OCR”). A user computing device obtains a first image of the card from the digital scan of a physical card and analyzes features of the first image, the analysis being sufficient to determine if the first image is likely to be usable by an OCR algorithm. If the user computing device determines that the first image is likely to be usable, then the first image is transmitted to an OCR system associated with the OCR algorithm. Upon a determination that the first image is unlikely to be usable, a second image of the card from the digital scan of the physical card is analyzed. The optical character recognition system performs an optical character recognition algorithm on the filtered card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Xiaohang Wang, Alessandro Bissacco, Glen Berntson, Marria Nazif, Justin Scheiner, Sam Shih, Mark Leslie Snyder, Daniel Talavera
  • Client side filtering of card OCR images
    Patent number: 8903136
    Abstract: The technology of the present disclosure includes computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and systems to filter images before transmitting to a system for optical character recognition (“OCR”). A user computing device obtains a first image of the card from the digital scan of a physical card and analyzes features of the first image, the analysis being sufficient to determine if the first image is likely to be usable by an OCR algorithm. If the user computing device determines that the first image is likely to be usable, then the first image is transmitted to an OCR system associated with the OCR algorithm. Upon a determination that the first image is unlikely to be usable, a second image of the card from the digital scan of the physical card is analyzed. The optical character recognition system performs an optical character recognition algorithm on the filtered card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaohang Wang, Alessandro Bissacco, Glen Berntson, Marria Nazif, Justin Scheiner, Sam Shih, Mark Leslie Snyder, Daniel Talavera