Patents by Inventor Jose Javier Yebes Torres

Jose Javier Yebes Torres 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).

  • Publication number: 20240096125
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to tag segments in a document. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to execute machine readable instructions to generate node embeddings for nodes of a graph, the node embeddings based on features extracted from text segments detected in a document, the text segments to be represented by the nodes of the graph; sample edges corresponding to the nodes to generate the graph; generate first updated node embeddings by passing the node embeddings and the graph through layers of a graph neural network, the first updated embeddings corresponding to the node embeddings augmented with neighbor information; generate second updated node embeddings by passing the first updated embeddings through layers of a recurrent neural network, the second updated embeddings corresponding to the first updated node embeddings augmented with sequential information; and classify the text segments based on the second updated node embeddings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Jose Javier Yebes Torres, David Montero
  • Publication number: 20240013562
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that determine related content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: David Montero, Javier Martinez Cebrian, Jose Javier Yebes Torres
  • Publication number: 20230394859
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that detect lines in a document. An example apparatus includes at least one memory; machine readable instructions; and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to: generate feature embeddings for text segments detected in a document image, the segments associated with respective bounding boxes, wherein the segments are to be represented by nodes in a graph; identify candidate edges between ones of the segments; pass the feature embeddings through graph attention layers (GAT) to update the feature embeddings with information from neighbor nodes; generate an adjacency matrix for the document image by determining confidence scores for the edges; and cluster the nodes based on the adjacency matrix to group ones of the nodes that belong to a same line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: David Montero, Jose Javier Yebes Torres
  • Patent number: 11810380
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and articles manufacture to decode documents based on images using artificial intelligence are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a model executor to input an image into a first artificial intelligence (AI)-based model to generate detected columns of text in the image; and input the image into a second AI-based model to classify the detected columns into categories; a cell identifier to identify rows or cells in the detected columns; and a report generator to: link information corresponding to the rows or cells in the detected columns with corresponding categories; and generating a report based on the linked information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIELSEN CONSUMER LLC
    Inventors: Roberto Arroyo, Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Aitor Aller Beascoechea, Francisco Javier Delgado del Hoyo, Dayron Rizo Rodriguez, Ravindra Gadde
  • Publication number: 20230306766
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to decode receipts based on neural graph architecture. An apparatus includes interface circuitry to obtain an image of a document; machine readable instructions; and programmable circuitry to execute the machine readable instructions to at least generate nodes for a feature graph based on features extracted from text boxes, the nodes including polar coordinates indicative of angular positions of the text boxes; pass the feature graph through a graph neural network to generate an adjacency matrix; and identify text lines in the image of the document by clustering the nodes by line based on the adjacency matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Dayron Rizo Rodriguez, Jose Javier Yebes Torres
  • Patent number: 11768993
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for receipt decoding. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to execute instructions to extract text from the receipt image, the text including bounding boxes; associate ones of the bounding boxes to link horizontally related fields of a the receipt image by selecting a first bounding box; identifying first horizontally aligned bounding boxes, the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to include at least one bounding box of the bounding boxes that is horizontally aligned relative to the first bounding box; adding the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to a word sync list; and connecting ones of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and the first bounding box based on at least one of an amount of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes in the word sync list and a relationship among the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and the first bounding box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLC
    Inventors: Kannan Shanmuganathan, Hussain Masthan, Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Raju Kumar Allam
  • Publication number: 20230245486
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve tagging accuracy. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the machine readable instructions to at least search a first row of a document to identify a first row that includes a first type of entity, search the first row of the document to identify a second type of entity that is missing, search the first row of the document to identify a first integer value, and associate the first row with a product corresponding to the first integer value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Sricharan Amarnath, Roberto Arroyo
  • Publication number: 20230230408
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for decoding images. An example apparatus to decode an image comprises interface circuitry to receive an image of a purchase document, and processor circuitry to execute the machine readable instructions to extract text from the image of the purchase document, the image of the purchase document to memorialize a transaction that includes at least one product; determine a type of the purchase document to which the image corresponds; apply one of a first pipeline or a second pipeline to the image of the purchase document based on the type of the purchase document; obtain purchase facts corresponding to a respective one of the at least one product memorialized in the image of the purchase document; and map the obtained purchase facts against a products database to identify the at least one product memorialized in the image of the purchase document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Roberto Arroyo, Jose Javier Yebes Torres
  • Patent number: 11625930
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to decode receipts based on neural graph architecture. An example apparatus for decoding receipts includes, vertex feature representation circuitry to extract features from optical-character-recognition (OCR) words, polar coordinate circuitry to: calculate polar coordinates of the OCR words based on respective ones of the extracted features, graph neural network circuitry to generate an adjacency matrix based on the extracted features, post-processing circuitry to traverse the adjacency matrix to generate cliques of OCR processed words, and output circuitry to generate lines of text based on the cliques of OCR processed words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLC
    Inventors: Dayron Rizo Rodriguez, Jose Javier Yebes Torres
  • Publication number: 20230008198
    Abstract: Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus are disclosed to label text on images. An example apparatus includes colorizer circuitry to apply color to text boxes corresponding to optical character recognition (OCR) data associated with an image, OCR manager circuitry to render an OCR text prompt associated with the OCR data, the OCR text prompt to be rendered proximate to respective ones of the text boxes, the OCR text prompt to display a text portion of the OCR data, and edit circuitry to (a) render an interface in response to selection of the OCR text prompt, the interface populated with the text portion of the OCR data, and (b) in response to an overwrite input to the interface, update the text portion of the OCR data in a memory corresponding to the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Ravindra Gadde, Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Dayron Rizo Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20230004748
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to decode receipts based on neural graph architecture. An example apparatus for decoding receipts includes, vertex feature representation circuitry to extract features from optical-character-recognition (OCR) words, polar coordinate circuitry to: calculate polar coordinates of the OCR words based on respective ones of the extracted features, graph neural network circuitry to generate an adjacency matrix based on the extracted features, post-processing circuitry to traverse the adjacency matrix to generate cliques of OCR processed words, and output circuitry to generate lines of text based on the cliques of OCR processed words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Dayron Rizo Rodriguez, Jose Javier Yebes Torres
  • Publication number: 20230005286
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that decode purchase data using an image. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to execute machine readable instructions to at least crop an image of a receipt based on detected regions of interest, apply a first mask to a first cropped image to generate first bounding boxes corresponding to rows of the receipt, apply a second mask to a second cropped image to generate second bounding boxes corresponding to columns of the receipt, generate a structure of the receipt by mapping words detected by an optical character recognition engine to corresponding first bounding boxes and second bounding boxes based on a mapping criterion, classify the second bounding boxes by identifying an expression of interest in ones of the second bounding boxes, and generate purchase information by extracting text of interest from the structured receipt based on the classifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Aditi Shina, Christine Lebrun, Fabio Oppini, Atul Bansal, Mukul Kumar, Vignesh Chandramouli, Filipa Sousa, Gisella Mercaldi
  • Publication number: 20220414630
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that decode purchase data using an image. An example apparatus includes a dictionary including associated product descriptions and barcodes, interface circuitry, and processing circuitry to execute machine readable instructions to obtain purchase details and barcodes corresponding to a receipt, the purchase details including receipt product descriptions, generate a search query that includes a first receipt product description of the receipt product descriptions, a list of barcodes corresponding to the barcodes, and a store identifier associated with the receipt, execute a search against the dictionary using the search query to identify a barcode from the list of barcodes that corresponds to the first receipt product description, and in response to identifying the barcode that corresponds to the first receipt product description, associating the barcode and the first receipt product description and adding the association to the dictionary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Aditi Shina, Christine Lebrun, Fabio Oppini, Atul Bansal, Mukul Kumar, Vignesh Chandramouli, Filipa Sousa, Gisella Mercaldi
  • Publication number: 20220383651
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for receipt decoding. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to execute instructions to extract text from the receipt image, the text including bounding boxes; associate ones of the bounding boxes to link horizontally related fields of a the receipt image by selecting a first bounding box; identifying first horizontally aligned bounding boxes, the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to include at least one bounding box of the bounding boxes that is horizontally aligned relative to the first bounding box; adding the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to a word sync list; and connecting ones of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and the first bounding box based on at least one of an amount of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes in the word sync list and a relationship among the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and the first bounding box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Kannan Shanmuganathan, Hussain Masthan, Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Raju Kumar Allam
  • Patent number: 11410446
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for receipt decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NIELSEN CONSUMER LLC
    Inventors: Kannan Shanmuganathan, Hussain Masthan, Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Raju Kumar Allam
  • Publication number: 20210406533
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and articles manufacture to decode documents based on images using artificial intelligence are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a model executor to input an image into a first artificial intelligence (AI)-based model to generate detected columns of text in the image; and input the image into a second AI-based model to classify the detected columns into categories; a cell identifier to identify rows or cells in the detected columns; and a report generator to: link information corresponding to the rows or cells in the detected columns with corresponding categories; and generating a report based on the linked information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Roberto Arroyo, Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Aitor Aller Beascoechea, Francisco Javier Delgado del Hoyo, Dayron Rizo Rodriguez, Ravindra Gadde
  • Publication number: 20210158038
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for receipt decoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Kannan Shanmuganathan, Hussain Masthan, Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Raju Kumar Allam