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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2014
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Sanjiv Kumar, White Plains, NY (US);
Xiaohang Wang, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Jose Moreira Rodrigues, Lisbon, PT;
Farhan Shamsi, Rego Park, NY (US);
Yakov Okshtein, Far Rockaway, NY (US);
Henry Allan Rowley, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Marcus Quintana Mitchell, New York, NY (US);
Zhifei Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Extracting card data comprises receiving, by one or more computing devices, a digital image of a card; perform an image recognition process on the digital representation of the card; identifying an image in the digital representation of the card; comparing the identified image to an image database comprising a plurality of images and determining that the identified image matches a stored image in the image database; determining a card type associated with the stored image and associating the card type with the card based on the determination that the identified image matches the stored image; and performing a particular optical character recognition algorithm on the digital representation of the card, the particular optical character recognition algorithm being based on the determined card type. Another example uses an issuer identification number to improve data extraction. Another example compares extracted data with user data to improve accuracy.