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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:
Jul. 18, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 17, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

David James Wheaton, Pittsboro, NC (US);

Stuart Dakari Cooke, III, Durham, NC (US);

William Robert Nadolski, Raleigh, NC (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2022.01); 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

Embodiments are 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. Some embodiments utilize breakpoints to enable the system to match different documents with internal variations to a common template. Several embodiments include extracting contextually structured data from table images, such as gridded and non-gridded tables. 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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