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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 09, 2021
Applicant:

Sas Institute Inc., Cary, NC (US);

Inventors:

Yi Liao, Apex, NC (US);

Charles Franklin Board, Cary, NC (US);

William Robert Nadolski, Raleigh, NC (US);

David James Wheaton, Pittsboro, NC (US);

Heather Michelle Goodykoontz, Raleigh, NC (US);

Adheesha Sanjuaya Arangala, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Karthik Nakkeeran, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

SAS INSTITUTE INC., Cary, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06F 16/81 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 40/284 (2020.01); G06F 40/186 (2020.01); G06F 40/169 (2020.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); G06V 10/40 (2022.01); G06K 9/62 (2022.01); G06V 30/10 (2022.01); G06V 30/24 (2022.01); G06V 30/418 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 16/81 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 40/169 (2020.01); G06F 40/186 (2020.01); G06F 40/284 (2020.01); G06V 10/40 (2022.01); G06K 9/6253 (2013.01); G06K 9/6276 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30168 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30176 (2013.01); G06V 30/10 (2022.01); G06V 30/248 (2022.01); G06V 30/418 (2022.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for image content extraction. Some embodiments include extracting contextually structured data from document images, such as by automatically identifying document layout, document data, document metadata, and/or correlations therebetween in a document image, for instance. Several embodiments include extracting contextually structured data from table images, such as gridded and non-gridded tables. For example, the contents of cells may be extracted from a table image along with structural context including the corresponding row and column information. Many embodiments are directed to generating and utilizing a document template database for automatically extracting document image contents into a contextually structured format. Several embodiments are directed to automatically identifying and associating document metadata with corresponding document data in a document image to generate a machine-facilitated annotation of the document image. In some embodiments, the machine-facilitated annotation may be used to generate a template for the template database.


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