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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:
Mar. 01, 2011

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2006
Applicants:

Ralph Furmaniak, Ontario, CA;

Ray Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);

Luc Vincent, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Dan Bloomberg, Mountain View, CA (US);

Dar-shyang Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ralph Furmaniak, Ontario, CA;

Ray Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);

Luc Vincent, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Dan Bloomberg, Mountain View, CA (US);

Dar-Shyang Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention relates to systems and methods for analyzing media material having articles continuing across multiple pages. A media material analyzer includes a segmenter and an article composer. The segmenter identifies block segments associated with columnar body test in the media material. The article composer determines which of the identified block segments belong to a continuing article extending across multiple pages in the media material based on language statistics information and continuation transition information.


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