US Patent Issued to ABBYY Development on June 16 for "Processing images of deformed indicia-bearing surfaces" (Russian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,945, issued on June 16, was assigned to ABBYY Development Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Processing images of deformed indicia-bearing surfaces" was invented by Ivan Zagaynov (Dolgoprudniy, Russia), Dmitry Solntsev (Moscow) and Alina Kalyakina (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of processing images of deformed indicia-bearing surfaces includes: detecting, within a document image, a plurality of image fragments, wherein each image fragment of the plurality of image fragment contains a respective sequence of alphabet symbols; grouping the plurality of image fragments by lines of text to be reconstructed in the document imag...