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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:
Mar. 02, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2016
Applicant:
Iii Holdings 6, Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Inventor:
Eric Saund, San Carlos, CA (US);
Assignee:
III Holdings 6, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2005.12); G06K 9/00 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00456 (2012.12); G06K 9/00442 (2012.12); G06K 9/00449 (2012.12); G06K 9/346 (2012.12);
Abstract
Methods and systems of the present embodiment provide segmenting of connected components of markings found in document images. Segmenting includes detecting aligned text. From this detected material an aligned text mask is generated and used in processing of the images. The processing includes breaking connected components in the document images into smaller pieces or fragments by detecting and segregating the connected components and fragments thereof likely to belong to aligned text.