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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:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2007
Applicants:
Gretchen Anderson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeff Witt, Baltimore, MD (US);
Ben Foss, San Francisco, CA (US);
J M Van Thong, Arlington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Gretchen Anderson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeff Witt, Baltimore, MD (US);
Ben Foss, San Francisco, CA (US);
J M Van Thong, Arlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Intel-GE Care Innovations LLC, Roseville, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In some embodiments, disclosed is reading device that comprises a camera, at least one processor, and a user interface. The camera scans at least a portion of a document having text to generate a raster file. The processor processes the raster file to identify text blocks. The user interface allows a user to hierarchically navigate the text blocks when they are read to the user.