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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2022
Applicant:
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.s.a., Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Inventor:
Tim Prebble, Longmont, CO (US);
Assignee:
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A., INC., Foster City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 30/414 (2021.12); G06F 40/103 (2019.12); G06F 40/106 (2019.12); G06F 40/117 (2019.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/117 (2019.12); G06F 40/103 (2019.12); G06F 40/106 (2019.12); G06V 30/414 (2021.12);
Abstract
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for detecting and tagging of paragraphs that span columns, pages, or other reading units are provided. For example, a method can include obtaining a set of candidate paragraphs for a document. The method can also include identifying a pair of candidate paragraphs spanning columns from among the set of candidate paragraphs. The method can further include outputting a tagged paragraph corresponding to the pair of candidate paragraphs spanning columns.