US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for shadow detection and reduction in document capture" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,259, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for shadow detection and reduction in document capture" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Reda Harb (Saint Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for shadow detection and reduction during document capture are disclosed herein. Temporary images of hardcopy documents are analyzed to determine the presence of a shadow or hotspot that obscures information of the hardcopy document. In response to detecting the shadow or hotspot, a controllable light source is used to illuminate the hardcopy documen...