Separating Document Regions Using Preprinted Guides Or Markings Patents (Class 382/175)
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Patent number: 12363323Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for secure processing of image data are described. Image data included in image files may be encrypted and compressed in a single step using dynamically identified compression/encryption information such as code word tables.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2023Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: United States Postal ServiceInventor: Ryan J. Simpson
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Patent number: 12293523Abstract: Described herein is a computer implemented method for automatically generating a cropped version of an input image. The method includes processing the input image to detect a salient region of the input image and generating a set of crop candidates based on the salient region of the input image, each crop candidate defining a different image crop. A set of candidate scores is calculated, each corresponding to a crop candidate, and a first crop candidate is selected based on the set of scores. The cropped version of the input image is then generated based on the image crop defined by the first crop candidate.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Canva Pty LtdInventors: Sanchit Sanchit, Paul Angerer
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Patent number: 12272163Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for unsupervised scene-decompositional normalizing flows. An example process can include obtaining a scene-decompositional model having a normalizing flow neural network architecture. The process can include determining, based on processing data depicting multiple targets in a scene using the scene-decompositional model, a distribution of scene data as a mixture of flows from one or more background components and one or more foreground components. The process can further include identifying, based on processing the distribution of scene data using the scene-decompositional model, a target associated with the one or more foreground components and included in the data depicting the multiple targets in the scene.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Farhad Ghazvinian Zanjani, Hanno Ackermann, Daniel Hendricus Franciscus Dijkman, Fatih Murat Porikli
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Patent number: 12260662Abstract: A computer implemented method includes rendering a document page as an image; detecting tables, columns, and other associated table objects within the image via one or more table recognition models that model objects in the image as overlapping bounding boxes; transforming the set of objects into a structured representation of the table; extracting data from the objects into the structured representation; and exporting the table into the desired output format.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: J Brandon Smock, Pramod Kumar Sharma, Natalia Larios Delgado, Rohith Venkata Pesala, Robin Abraham
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Patent number: 12217336Abstract: A method includes obtaining a first image, determining a first target curve of a first region occupied by the first image, where an area of the first region is equal to an area of the first image, determining a target object on the first image, moving the first image to obtain a second image, where a second target curve of a second region in which the target object on the second image is located is close to or overlaps the first target curve, and the second region is an external polygon of the target object, and cropping out an image part that is of the second image and that is moved out of the first region.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yundie Zhang, Liang Hu, Yifan Ji
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Patent number: 12197848Abstract: A user device to receive, from an infrastructure device, a trained machine learning (ML) model to enable the user device to determine a given type of input information to be auto-fill in an observed field portion in an observed network element; analyze an observed source code associated with the observed network element to determine an observed characteristic associated with the observed field portion that is configured to accept the given type of input information; calculate an observed signature associated with the observed field portion based at least in part on the observed characteristic; utilize the trained ML model to evaluate the observed signature to determine the given type of input information; and auto-fill, in the observed field portion, input information in accordance with the given type of input information is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: UAB 360 ITInventor: Justinas Reigis
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Patent number: 12192618Abstract: A device and method for taking pictures is disclosed. The device includes: a camera; a display; and a processor configured to capture a plurality of temporary images of one or more subjects by using the camera; extract a reconstructed scene from the plurality of temporary images; capture a focused image that a user intends to take a picture by using the camera; generate a subject map in the focused image by using the reconstructed scene; estimate an armature from the subjects selected from the subject map; combine the armature with the focused image; verify whether the composition of the focused image is good or not; and present an instruction to the user to adjust the composition by using the display. The device and method achieves improved photographic composition.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Uragaki Keishiro, Sato Hiroyuki
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Patent number: 12180531Abstract: Embodiments disclose apparatus, methods and software for performing biological screening and analysis implemented using an instrument platform capable of detecting a wide variety of cell-based secretions, expressed proteins, and other cellular components. The platform may be configured for simultaneous multiplexed detection of a plurality biological components such that a large number of discrete samples may be individually sequestered and evaluated to detect or identify constituents from the samples in a highly parallelized and scalable manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: IsoPlexis CorporationInventors: Patrick Paczkowski, Sean Mackay, Sean Mccusker
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Patent number: 12175782Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Ravindra Gadde, Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Dayron Rizo Rodriguez
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Patent number: 12154361Abstract: A method of image-to-document conversion based on optical character recognition (OCR) includes obtaining an image to be converted into a target document, and performing layout segmentation on the image according to image content of the image, to obtain n image layouts, each of the n image layouts corresponding to a content type, and n being a positive integer. The method also includes, for each of the n image layouts, processing image content in the respective image layout according to the content type corresponding to the respective image layout, to obtain converted content corresponding to the respective image layout. The method further includes adding the converted content corresponding to the n image layouts to an electronic document, to obtain the target document.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company LimitedInventors: Xingyao Chen, Canlu Huang, Wencan Hu, Yidong Chen, Hanquan Lin, Fei Huang, Geyang Ke, Zhiquan Yang
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Patent number: 12147392Abstract: Embodiments are directed to synchronizing files between client devices utilizing different file systems with different filename restrictions. Generally speaking, a server of a cloud-based storage environment can, upon generation of a file or receiving a file from a first client device, detect any “illegal” characters therein, i.e., characters that are predefined by a file system of a second client device of the environment as being impermissible for use in a filename, and substitute a replacement character for those illegal characters. This replacement character can comprise a character that is permissible by the file system of both the first and second client devices, thereby allowing synchronization and access. Additionally, the server(s) can identify the original filename from the first client device and substitute the replacement characters back to the original filename when the file is being accessed by or synchronized with the first client device.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Box, Inc.Inventor: David Sawyer
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Patent number: 12118298Abstract: An infrastructure device to analyze a source code associated with a known network element to determine a characteristic associated with an included field portion that is configured to accept a known type of input information; determine a correlation between the determined characteristic and the known type of input information; calculate, based on the correlation, a training signature that uniquely indicates a classification of the field portion as a field portion that accepts the known type of input information; train a machine learning (ML) model based on utilizing the training signature as training data; and transmit, to a user device, a trained ML model to enable the user device to utilize the trained ML model to determine, during an operation period, a given type of input information to be auto-filled in an observed field portion in an observed network element is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: UAB 360 ITInventor: Justinas Reigis
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Patent number: 12100233Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed for segmenting a binarized document. The method includes extracting connected components from the binarized document and discriminating (for at least one of the connected components) whether it is a text component based on a homogeneity level value. The homogeneity level value is representative of the level of homogeneity within the local region of the connected component. The local region includes the connected component and at least one adjacent connected component. The homogeneity level value is based on at least one value representative of at least one image characteristic parameter determined for the connected component and on at least one value representative of the image characteristic parameter of the at least one adjacent connected component.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSELInventors: Tan Lu, Ann Dooms
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Patent number: 12087068Abstract: A processor may receive an image and identify a plurality of characters in the image using a machine learning (ML) model. The processor may generate at least one word-level bounding box indicating one or more words including at least a subset of the plurality of characters and/or may generate at least one field-level bounding box indicating at least one field including at least a subset of the one or more words. The processor may overlay the at least one word-level bounding box and the at least one field-level bounding box on the image to form a masked image including a plurality of optically-recognized characters and one or more predicted fields for at least a subset of the plurality of optically-recognized characters.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: INTUIT INC.Inventors: Dominic Miguel Rossi, Xiao Xiao
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Patent number: 12073640Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein relates to systems, devices, and/or processes for processing signals relating to surfaces that may be viewable by subjects though one or more devices. In an embodiment, a surface may include one or more devices embedded therein to provide one or more signals to define a portion of the surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Arm LimitedInventor: Renee Marie St. Amant
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Patent number: 12063305Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to manage application access in networked environments are disclosed. An example method includes monitoring accesses made using a credential to a first set of one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) and with a second set of one or more APIs, the credential associated with a first permission for access to the first set of one or more APIs and a second permission for access to the second set of one or more APIs, determining, based on access to one or more APIs of the first set of one or more APIs using the credential, that the first permission is to be suspended, and in response to the determination that the first permission is to be suspended, suspending the first permission while maintaining the second permission.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: SHOPIFY INC.Inventors: Jessica Wai Yan Ip, Shawn Haywood
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Patent number: 12062246Abstract: A method for extracting text from an input image and generating a document includes: generating an edges mask from the input image; generating an edges image that is derived from the edges mask; identifying, within the edges mask, one or more probable text areas; extracting a first set of text characters by performing a first optical character recognition (OCR) operation on each of one or more probable text portions, of the derived edges image, corresponding to each of the probable text areas; generating a modified image by erasing, from the input image, image characters corresponding to the first set of text characters extracted by the first OCR operation; and generating a document by overlaying the extracted first set of text characters on the modified image.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.Inventor: Tim Prebble
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Patent number: 12032901Abstract: A system is disclosed in which an infrastructure device analyzes a source code associated with a known network element to determine a characteristic associated with a field portion that is configured to accept a known type of input information; determines a correlation between the characteristic and the known type of input information; calculates a training signature to classify the field portion; trains an ML model based on the training signature; and transmits a trained ML model to a user device. The user device analyzes an observed source code associated with an observed network element to determine an observed characteristic associated with an observed field portion that is configured to accept a given type of input information; calculates an observed signature; utilizes the trained ML model to determine the given type of input information; and auto-fills, in the observed field portion, input information according to the given type of input information.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: UAB 360 ITInventor: Justinas Reigis
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Patent number: 12026458Abstract: A template generation system for generating document templates from a mixed set of document types including a template generation server programmed to receive a batch of documents, identify a plurality of text blocks, generate a plurality of clusters, generate a plurality of document arrays corresponding to the plurality of clusters, and compare each document array to each other document array to determine a percentage match. When the percentage match between two or more frameworks exceeds a threshold, the template generation system defines a subset of documents, and for each subset of documents, template generation system generates a template for the subset of documents. The template is a collection of the text blocks that are commonly included in each of the documents of the subset.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyInventor: Alexander Gataric
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Patent number: 12026185Abstract: Keywords obtained from a user and/or extracted from uploaded document(s) may be used to generate potential keywords. Documents may be identified based on the keywords and the potential keywords accepted by the user. A knowledge graph model representing the identified documents may be generated. The knowledge graph model may include document nodes representing the identified document and a search node representing the keywords. The relative position of the document nodes with respect to the search node may represent similarity between the corresponding documents and the keywords.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed, Larry A. Bowden, Jr., Xin Feng
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Patent number: 12014350Abstract: Techniques for processing images of documents captured using a mobile device are provided. The images can include different sides of a document from a mobile device for an authenticated transaction. In an example implementation, a method incudes inspecting the images to detect a feature associated with a first side of the document. In response to determining an image is the first side of the document, a type of content is selected to be analyze on the image of the first side and one or more of regions of interests (ROIs) are identified on the image of the first side that are known to include the selected type of content. A process can include receiving a sub-image of the image of the first side from the preprocessing unit, and performing content detection test on the sub-image.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Mitek Systems, Inc.Inventors: Grisha Nepomniachtchi, Vitali Kliatskine
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Patent number: 11941307Abstract: A method for evaluating a print quality of a printed document that is printed by a printer is provided. The printer comprises a pre-print image scanner, a post-print image scanner, and a printhead disposed between the pre-print image scanner and the post-print image scanner. The method comprises generating a pre-printing image of a print media, generating the printed document, generating a post-printing image of the printed document, generating a validation image by comparing the post-printing image with the pre-printing image, and comparing the validation image with the source image.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Jose Fernando Sanchez Gutierrez, Ronald Schwallie, Thomas Axel Jonas Celinder, H Sprague Ackley
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Patent number: 11936642Abstract: Embodiments herein include an intelligent electronic device (IED) by employing a multi-factor authentication process. In some embodiments, to change the access level of the IED, the user may use the password and additional inputs such as an off-site operator sending a command, or the user engaging a push button or switch local to the IED.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: David J. Bowen, David J. Dolezilek
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Patent number: 11893611Abstract: Vehicles and other items often have corresponding documentation, such as registration cards, that includes a significant amount of informative textual information that can be used in identifying the item. Traditional OCR may be unsuccessful when dealing with non-cooperative images. Accordingly, features such as dewarping, text alignment, and line identification and removal may aid in OCR of non-cooperative images. Dewarping involves determining curvature of a document depicted in an image and processing the image to dewarp the image of the document to make it more accurately conform to the ideal of a cooperative image. Text alignment involves determining an actual alignment of depicted text, even when the depicted text is not aligned with depicted visual cues. Line identification and removal involves identifying portions of the image that depict lines and removing those lines prior to OCR processing of the image.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: EBAY INC.Inventors: Braddock Gaskill, Robinson Piramuthu
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Patent number: 11860865Abstract: A computer system extracts contender values as positively associated with a pre-defined value from a compilation of one or more electronically stored semi-structured document(s) and/or one or more electronically stored unstructured document(s). The computer system performs a multi-dimensional analysis to narrow the universe of contender values from all words on a page of the compilation to the contender value(s) with the highest likelihood of being associated with the pre-defined value. The system's platform allows every user of the system to customize the system according to the user's needs. Various aspects can enable users to mine document stores for information that can be charted, graphed, studied, and compared to help make better decisions.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: KOFAX, INC.Inventor: Ilker Kavas
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Patent number: 11853628Abstract: Provided is an industrial printing system that performs distributed processing of security content in peer-to-peer variable printing for production printing. The variable attribute generation unit generates variable attribute information including content information of variable content for which a security level is set in variable data for variable printing. The security determination unit selects other print server capable of processing the variable content based on the security level of the content information of the variable attribute information generated by the variable attribute generation unit. The processing management unit requests the other print server selected by the security determination unit to process the variable content according to the security level.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Taku Matsuo
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Patent number: 11854173Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for finding multiple line features in an image. Two related steps are used to identify line features. First, the process computes x and y-components of the gradient field at each image location, projects the gradient field over a plurality subregions, and detects a plurality of gradient extrema, yielding a plurality of edge points with position and gradient. Next, the process iteratively chooses two edge points, fits a model line to them, and if edge point gradients are consistent with the model, computes the full set of inlier points whose position and gradient are consistent with that model. The candidate line with greatest inlier count is retained and the set of remaining outlier points is derived. The process then repeatedly applies the line fitting operation on this and subsequent outlier sets to find a plurality of line results. The process can be exhaustive RANSAC-based.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Cognex CorporationInventors: Yu Feng Hsu, Lowell D. Jacobson, David Y. Li
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Patent number: 11831839Abstract: The technique of the present disclosure can achieve processing efficiency and prevention of improper drawing in printing a monochrome representation of color data. In performing discriminability reproducing color conversion processing, a PDL analysis unit determines whether processing involving color change that changes the original color is specified in operator information on a target object for the discriminability reproducing color conversion processing. In a case where processing that changes the original color, such as ROP or ?-blending, is specified for the target object, the discriminability reproducing color conversion processing for the page is canceled and switched to all-color uniform color conversion processing. This enables both of efficient discriminability reproducing color conversion and prevention of improper drawing.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takuya Inoue
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Patent number: 11830264Abstract: A processor may receive an image and identify a plurality of characters in the image using a machine learning (ML) model. The processor may generate at least one word-level bounding box indicating one or more words including at least a subset of the plurality of characters and/or may generate at least one field-level bounding box indicating at least one field including at least a subset of the one or more words. The processor may overlay the at least one word-level bounding box and the at least one field-level bounding box on the image to form a masked image including a plurality of optically-recognized characters and one or more predicted fields for at least a subset of the plurality of optically-recognized characters.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: INTUIT INC.Inventors: Dominic Miguel Rossi, Xiao Xiao
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Patent number: 11830255Abstract: A sign recognition system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure is configured to, when image data of a sign is captured by a vehicular camera, recognize one or more characters, which are included in the sign and belong to at least one specified character type, from the image data, thus extracting, from the image data, the recognized one or more characters. The sign recognition system is also configured to store a sign dataset in a sign database; the sign dataset includes (i) an installation-position information item indicative of the installation position of the sign, and (ii) an attribute information item about the sign.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshimasa Usui, Tomoo Nomura
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Patent number: 11809819Abstract: Various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing a form generation system are provided. Generating forms includes dynamic generation, personalization, and optimization of the forms based on automation objects that instruct on how to construct, structure and present forms for personalized data capture experiences. In operation, a form generator engine receives a request from a computing device to access a form. The form generator engine accesses form generation automation rules that are based on form generation parameters and automation objects. Using form generation automation rules, form generation parameters are used to generate automation objects including an annotated schema, a machine learning model, and a layout. Based on the form generation automation rules the automation objects are used to generate the form such that at least a field or a section of the form is selected based on a relevance score associated with field or section. The form is communicated for display.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Mandeep Gandhi, Suvrat Chaturvedi, Deepak Kumar
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Patent number: 11743408Abstract: The present invention provides a control method of an image reading device, an image reading device, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a program stored thereon, which avoid a reduction in reading resolution. The control method of the image reading device includes: a first step (ST101) of generating N line-shaped images indicating N line-shaped regions (W11) in an imaging target (T1) being conveyed in a conveying direction (X1) by imaging the N line-shaped regions (W11) extending in a direction perpendicular to the conveying direction (X1); a second step (ST102) of performing the same step as the first step (ST101) at a point in time when the imaging target (T1) is conveyed by an amount associated to a width (11a) of N?1 line-shaped regions; and a step (ST103) of generating a read image by arranging the N line-shaped images generated in each of the steps in ascending order.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.Inventor: Tetsuichiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11704921Abstract: Character recognition processing suitable to a handwritten character area and a printed character area among character areas in a scanned image of a document is performed. Next, character recognition results for the handwritten character area and character recognition results for the printed character area are integrated and a likelihood indicating a probability of being an extraction target is calculated for a candidate character string that is an extraction candidate among the integrated character recognition results and a character string that is the item value is determined. Then, at the time of the determination, different evaluation indications are used in a case where a character originating from the handwritten character area is included in characters constituting the candidate character string and in a case where such a character is not included.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Makoto Enomoto
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Patent number: 11691083Abstract: Methods and systems for facilitating a scavenger hunt. The systems and methods described herein involve receiving at an interface a list of a plurality of attractions, and communicating the list of the plurality of attractions to at least one device associated with a participant over a network. Scavenger hunt participants may then gather imagery of the required attractions. The systems and methods described herein then involve receiving imagery from the at least one participant and executing at least one computer vision procedure to determine whether the received imagery includes at least one of the plurality of attractions.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Photo Butler Inc.Inventors: Gerald Hewes, Carlson Craig, Zhikang Ding, Joseph C. Cuccinelli, Jr., David Benaim, Joe Regan, Tricia Chang, Andrew P. Goldfarb
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Patent number: 11661619Abstract: Embodiments disclose apparatus, methods and software for performing biological screening and analysis implemented using an instrument platform capable of detecting a wide variety of cell-based secretions, expressed proteins, and other cellular components. The platform may be configured for simultaneous multiplexed detection of a plurality biological components such that a large number of discrete samples may be individually sequestered and evaluated to detect or identify constituents from the samples in a highly parallelized and scalable manner.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: IsoPlexis CorporationInventors: Patrick Paczkowski, Sean Mackay, Sean McCusker
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Patent number: 11601286Abstract: A signature verification platform includes: a locale classifying engine configured to decide a style of a signature by applying machine learning-based classification techniques to the signature that is input to the locale classifying engine; a parameter profile generating section configured to select a verification profile which suits the style decided by the locale classifying engine; and a verification engine configured to verify the signature using the verification profile selected by the parameter profile generating section.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Joss Daniel Giffard-Burley
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Patent number: 11568661Abstract: Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a method that includes receiving a plurality of images from an image capturing unit. Thereafter, an image evaluation process is executed on each of plurality of sections in each of the plurality of images. The image evaluation process includes performing optical character recognition (OCR) on each of the plurality of sections in each of the plurality of images to generate text corresponding to the plurality of respective sections. Further, the image evaluation process includes querying a linguistic database to identify one or more errors in the generated text. Further, the method includes modifying one or more image characteristics of each of the plurality of images and repeating the execution of the image evaluation process on the modified plurality of images until at least the calculated statistical score is less than a pre-defined statistical score threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC.Inventor: H. Sprague Ackley
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Patent number: 11528429Abstract: An image processing device includes an evaluation unit configured to evaluate whether a first region of a captured image satisfies a quality condition, and a composition frame setting unit configured to set a different composition frame in the captured image in accordance with an evaluation result of the first region.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda
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Patent number: 11514699Abstract: In an approach for a text block recognition in a document, a processor detects characters in the document using an object detection technique. A processor identifies positions of the detected characters in the document. A processor analyzes semantic connectivity among the detected characters based on the positions and semantic connectivity of the characters. A processor recognizes text blocks of related characters based on the semantic connectivity analysis. A processor outputs the text blocks associated with the related characters.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Zhong Fang Yuan, Zhuo Cai, Tong Liu, Yu Pan, Li Ni Zhang, Jian Long Li
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Patent number: 11503179Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory storing instructions and a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations. Four sides of a document included in captured image data are detected. Lengths of the detected four sides of the document are calculated. The operations further include determining which of a plurality of predefined paper sizes corresponds to the document based on the calculated lengths of the four sides. The determined corresponding paper size is set as a document size of the document.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11494555Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for inferring certain texts as stylized section headings in an electronic document (ED). Stylized section headings are section headings that have unique styling distinct from the body of text below each stylized heading. In particular, the stylized section headings are identified based on styling information in the ED. Identifying stylized section headings includes grouping candidate headings based on identification of dominant styling, locating high level fragments, and repeatedly locating nested fragments from within higher level fragments. The ED may or may not include explicitly identified headings in the document.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.Inventor: Darrell Bellert
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Patent number: 11475681Abstract: The present application discloses an image processing method, apparatus, electronic device and computer readable storage medium. The image processing method comprises detecting a text region in an image to be processed, recognizing the text region to obtain a text recognition result. In this application, the text recognition in the image to be processed is realized, the recognition manner for the text in the image is simplified, and the recognition effect for the text is improved.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Inventors: Xiaobing Wang, Yingying Jiang, Xiangyu Zhu, Hao Guo, Yi Yu, Pingjun Li, Zhenbo Luo
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Patent number: 11463602Abstract: An image processing method includes an acquisition step of acquiring image data by capturing printed matter, wherein first information and second information, indicating a type of the first information, are embedded in the printed matter as an electronic watermark, an extraction step of extracting the first information and the second information from the image data acquired at the acquisition step, and a processing step of processing the extracted first information by different processing methods in accordance with the extracted second information. Based on that the type of the first information indicated by the second information is a predetermined type, the extracted first information is processed at the processing step, by a predetermined processing method for access to an external device using the extracted first information and display of a web page based on the access.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Ryoya Kawai
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Patent number: 11335037Abstract: A method of automatically computing tool properties of a virtual paint brush includes obtaining an edge map from a digital image, wherein boundaries of objects in the image are detected, computing contours for the edge map, receiving a brush stroke of the virtual paint brush from a user at a point on a contour, and finding an object boundary that corresponds to the contour that received the brush stroke, computing a tangential slope of the object boundary at the point of the brush stroke, adjusting tool properties of the virtual paint brush based on a change in the tangential slope of the object boundary, and visually displaying the adjusted tool properties dynamically while the user is moving brush strokes around the object boundaries.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: ADOBE INC.Inventors: Rishu Aggarwal, Ajay Bedi
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Patent number: 11265431Abstract: An object is to implement deletion of an already-input character string in a UI screen by a simpler operation without using a dedicated deletion button. An input character string is deleted in a case where a user selects the same character string as the character string used for a touch input.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenta Inoue
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Patent number: 11200413Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for table recognition in PDF documents are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes discretizing one or more contiguous areas of a PDF document; identifying one or more white-space separator lines within the one or more discretized contiguous areas of the PDF document; detecting one or more candidate table regions within the one or more discretized contiguous areas of the PDF document by clustering the one or more white-space separator lines into one or more grids; and outputting at least one of the candidate table regions as a finalized table in accordance with scores assigned to each of the one or more candidate table regions based on (i) border information and (ii) cell structure information.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Douglas Ronald Burdick, Wei Cheng, Alexandre Evfimievski, Marina Danilevsky Hailpern, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Shajith Ikbal Mohamed, Prithviraj Sen, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan
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Patent number: 11195008Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for data extraction. A target document representation may be generated based on modified text of a target electronic document. A measure of similarity may be determined between the target document representation and a reference document representation, which may be based on modified text of a reference electronic document. Based on the measure of similarity, the reference document representation may be selected. An extraction model associated with the selected reference document representation can then be used to extract data from the target document.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Inventors: Changlin Zhang, Bryan Wang, Akshay Ukey, Sangam Singh
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Patent number: 11183191Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to identify, from a character string recognition result for a form, a form feature that indicates at least a field in which the form is used or an attribute of a filling-out person filling out the form, accumulate past correction tendencies for character string recognition results for forms having respective identified form features, and obtain a correction tendency for a form having a form feature that is the same as the identified form feature from among the accumulated correction tendencies, and perform control to display a candidate correct expression for the character string recognition result for the form in accordance with the obtained correction tendency.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventor: Mami Iwanari
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Patent number: 11080545Abstract: A computer-implemented method for increasing a recognition rate of an optical character recognition (OCR) system is provided. The method includes preprocessing by receiving an image, and extracting all vertical lines from the image. The method includes adding vertical lines at character areas of the image, extracting all horizontal lines from the image, and creating an unlined image removing all the vertical/horizontal lines from the image. The method further includes determining a border of a vertical direction of the unlined image based on the total of pixels of rows in each column, and adding vertical/horizontal auxiliary lines between characters of the unlined image. The method also includes postprocessing by receiving garbled words of OCR output, removing noise after morphologically analyzing, replacing garbled letters with correct ones based on a frequent edit operation, and outputting the correct word, weighting results of image distance calculations based on machine learning.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kohichi Kamijoh, Akira Shimizu, Dai Sakai, Yuta Ishii
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Patent number: 11061953Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure, implements method of extracting relevant sections from a plurality of documents by (a) receiving an input document from a user; (b) converting, the input document to a standard text file; (c) classifying, the standard text file to obtain a labelled text file associated with at least one cluster from a plurality of clusters; (d) extracting, from the labelled text file to obtain a plurality of relevant entities associated with at least one cluster in the plurality of clusters; (e) annotating, the standard text file by the extracted plurality of relevant entities to obtain an annotated enriched text file; (f) identifying, a plurality of section boundaries to obtain a sectioned data; and (g) extracting, relevant sections of the plurality of documents based on the plurality of relationship associated with the set of relevant entities.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITEDInventors: Mahek Shah, Rajiv Srivastava, Girish Keshav Palsikhar