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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:
Feb. 10, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2012
Applicants:

Franz Josef Och, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Ashok Chhabedia Popat, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Dmitriy Genzel, Mountain View, CA (US);

Michael E. Jahr, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Franz Josef Och, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Ashok Chhabedia Popat, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Dmitriy Genzel, Mountain View, CA (US);

Michael E. Jahr, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

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

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing optical character recognition. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a text image I. A set of feature functions are evaluated for a log linear model to determine respective feature values for the text image I, wherein each feature function hmaps the text image I to a feature value, and wherein each feature function his associated with a respective feature weight λ. A transcription {circumflex over (T)} is determined that minimizes a cost of the log linear model.


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