Patents by Inventor Ken PREPIN

Ken PREPIN 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: 11900644
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a document image analysis apparatus including: a document image acquisition unit configured to acquire a document image; a region detection unit configured to detect a plurality of regions from the document image acquired by the document image acquisition unit; a clustering unit configured to cluster the plurality of regions detected by the region detection unit to integrate into a cluster; and a reading order assignment unit configured to assign a reading order to a plurality of regions belonging to the cluster within the cluster integrated by the clustering unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Simona Maggio, Alois De La Comble, Ken Prepin
  • Publication number: 20230025450
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a training data acquisition unit configured to acquire training data; an input channel setting unit configured to set a plurality of input channels for inputting different features, respectively, from the training data acquired by the training data acquisition unit to a learning model to be trained with the training data; and a training unit configured to, in each training, randomly select, among the plurality of input channels set by the input channel setting unit, at least a part of the input channels, and deactivate an input from the selected input channel to the learning model to repeat training of the learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Rakuten, Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Alois DE LA COMBLE, Ken PREPIN
  • Publication number: 20210383106
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a document image analysis apparatus including: a document image acquisition unit configured to acquire a document image; a region detection unit configured to detect a plurality of regions from the document image acquired by the document image acquisition unit; a clustering unit configured to cluster the plurality of regions detected by the region detection unit to integrate into a cluster; and a reading order assignment unit configured to assign a reading order to a plurality of regions belonging to the cluster within the cluster integrated by the clustering unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Simona MAGGIO, Alois DE LA COMBLE, Ken PREPIN
  • Patent number: 10969872
    Abstract: A user interface apparatus, computer program, computer readable medium, and method for selecting a selectable object on a display screen is presented. The display screen displays one or more selectable objects. Information regarding a tracked hand position, and a tracked head or eye position of the user are obtained. Based on the tracked hand position and the tracked head or eye position, it is determined whether a said selectable object is located at a first screen position, the first screen position being a position on the display screen such that the first hand at least partly obscures the user's view of the selectable object. If it is determined as so located, then selectable object is determined as selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Laurent Ach, Ken Prepin, Cecilia Lejeune
  • Publication number: 20180088676
    Abstract: A user interface apparatus, computer program, computer readable medium, and method for selecting a selectable object on a display screen is presented. The display screen displays one or more selectable objects. Information regarding a tracked hand position, and a tracked head or eye position of the user are obtained. Based on the tracked hand position and the tracked head or eye position, it is determined whether a said selectable object is located at a first screen position, the first screen position being a position on the display screen such that the first hand at least partly obscures the user's view of the selectable object. If it is determined as so located, then selectable object is determined as selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Laurent ACH, Ken PREPIN, Cecilia LEJEUNE