Patents by Inventor Sheldon PORCINA

Sheldon PORCINA 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: 11030477
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing optical character recognition (OCR) by assessing and improving quality of electronic documents to perform the OCR. For example a method for identifying information in an electronic document includes obtaining a reference image of the electronic document, distorting the reference image by adjusting different sets of one or more parameters associated with a quality of the reference image to generate a plurality of distorted images, analyzing each distorted image to detect the adjusted set of parameters and corresponding adjusted values, determining an accuracy of detection of the set of parameters and the adjusted values, and training a model based at least on the plurality of distorted images and the accuracy of the detection, wherein the trained model determines at least a first technique for adjusting a set of parameters in a second image to prepare the second image for optical character recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Becker, Rakesh Kandpal, Priya Kothari, Sheldon Porcina, Pavlo Malynin
  • Patent number: 10621727
    Abstract: Systems of the present disclosure allow fields and labels to be identified in a digital image of a form without performing OCR. A digital image of a form can be partitioned into image segments using computer-vision image-segmentation techniques. Features for each image segment can be extracted using computer-vision feature-detection methods. The features extracted from an image segment can be included in an input instance for a machine-learning model. The machine-learning model can assign a classification to the input instance. The classification can associate the input instance with a field type or a label type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Richard J. Becker, Pallavika Ramaswamy, Daniel L. Moise, Sheldon Porcina
  • Publication number: 20190286935
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing optical character recognition (OCR) by assessing and improving quality of electronic documents to perform the OCR. For example a method for identifying information in an electronic document includes obtaining a reference image of the electronic document, distorting the reference image by adjusting different sets of one or more parameters associated with a quality of the reference image to generate a plurality of distorted images, analyzing each distorted image to detect the adjusted set of parameters and corresponding adjusted values, determining an accuracy of detection of the set of parameters and the adjusted values, and training a model based at least on the plurality of distorted images and the accuracy of the detection, wherein the trained model determines at least a first technique for adjusting a set of parameters in a second image to prepare the second image for optical character recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Richard J. BECKER, Rakesh KANDPAL, Priya KOTHARI, Sheldon PORCINA, Pavlo MALYNIN
  • Patent number: 10366309
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing optical character recognition (OCR) by assessing and improving quality of electronic documents to perform the OCR. For example a method for identifying information in an electronic document includes obtaining a reference image of the electronic document, distorting the reference image by adjusting different sets of one or more parameters associated with a quality of the reference image to generate a plurality of distorted images, analyzing each distorted image to detect the adjusted set of parameters and corresponding adjusted values, determining an accuracy of detection of the set of parameters and the adjusted values, and training a model based at least on the plurality of distorted images and the accuracy of the detection, wherein the trained model determines at least a first technique for adjusting a set of parameters in a second image to prepare the second image for optical character recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Becker, Rakesh Kandpal, Priya Kothari, Sheldon Porcina, Pavlo Malynin
  • Publication number: 20190050675
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing optical character recognition (OCR) by assessing and improving quality of electronic documents to perform the OCR. For example a method for identifying information in an electronic document includes obtaining a reference image of the electronic document, distorting the reference image by adjusting different sets of one or more parameters associated with a quality of the reference image to generate a plurality of distorted images, analyzing each distorted image to detect the adjusted set of parameters and corresponding adjusted values, determining an accuracy of detection of the set of parameters and the adjusted values, and training a model based at least on the plurality of distorted images and the accuracy of the detection, wherein the trained model determines at least a first technique for adjusting a set of parameters in a second image to prepare the second image for optical character recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Richard J. BECKER, Rakesh KANDPAL, Priya KOTHARI, Sheldon PORCINA, Pavlo MALYNIN
  • Patent number: 10108883
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing optical character recognition (OCR) by assessing and improving quality of electronic documents to perform the OCR. For example a method for identifying information in an electronic document includes obtaining a reference image of the electronic document, distorting the reference image by adjusting different sets of one or more parameters associated with a quality of the reference image to generate a plurality of distorted images, analyzing each distorted image to detect the adjusted set of parameters and corresponding adjusted values, determining an accuracy of detection of the set of parameters and the adjusted values, and training a model based at least on the plurality of distorted images and the accuracy of the detection, wherein the trained model determines at least a first technique for adjusting a set of parameters in a second image to prepare the second image for optical character recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Richard J. Becker, Rakesh Kandpal, Priya Kothari, Sheldon Porcina, Pavlo Malynin
  • Patent number: 9990544
    Abstract: A method and system provides augmented OCR data to a user of a financial system. The method and system include receiving image data related to an image of a financial document of the user and generating OCR data based on the image data. The method and system further include receiving financial data related to the financial document, analyzing the financial document, and generating the augmented OCR data based on the OCR data and the financial data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Karla Julietta Uribe, Robert E. Bamford, Massimo Mascaro, Michael Miljour, Horace Chan, Greg Coulombe, Sheldon Porcina, Carol Ann Howe, Kasey L. Matthews, Vitaliy Lee, Brian J. Chung, Varadarajan Sriram
  • Patent number: 9984471
    Abstract: Systems of the present disclosure allow fields and labels to be identified in a digital image of a form without performing OCR. A digital image of a form can be partitioned into image segments using computer-vision image-segmentation techniques. Features for each image segment can be extracted using computer-vision feature-detection methods. The features extracted from an image segment can be included in an input instance for a machine-learning model. The machine-learning model can assign a classification to the input instance. The classification can associate the input instance with a field type or a label type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Richard J. Becker, Pallavika Ramaswamy, Daniel L. Moise, Sheldon Porcina
  • Publication number: 20180121756
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for performing optical character recognition (OCR) by assessing and improving quality of electronic documents to perform the OCR. For example a method for identifying information in an electronic document includes obtaining a reference image of the electronic document, distorting the reference image by adjusting different sets of one or more parameters associated with a quality of the reference image to generate a plurality of distorted images, analyzing each distorted image to detect the adjusted set of parameters and corresponding adjusted values, determining an accuracy of detection of the set of parameters and the adjusted values, and training a model based at least on the plurality of distorted images and the accuracy of the detection, wherein the trained model determines at least a first technique for adjusting a set of parameters in a second image to prepare the second image for optical character recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Richard J. BECKER, Rakesh KANDPAL, Priya KOTHARI, Sheldon PORCINA, Pavlo MALYNIN
  • Publication number: 20180033147
    Abstract: Systems of the present disclosure allow fields and labels to be identified in a digital image of a form without performing OCR. A digital image of a form can be partitioned into image segments using computer-vision image-segmentation techniques. Features for each image segment can be extracted using computer-vision feature-detection methods. The features extracted from an image segment can be included in an input instance for a machine-learning model. The machine-learning model can assign a classification to the input instance. The classification can associate the input instance with a field type or a label type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Richard J. BECKER, Pallavika RAMASWAMY, Daniel L. MOISE, Sheldon PORCINA