US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Enhanced multilingual video on-screen text extraction" (New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,609, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Enhanced multilingual video on-screen text extraction" was invented by Yundi Jiang (New York), Trung Kien Nguyen (Seattle) and Changhyeok Lee (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for multilingual video on-screen text extraction may include a method including extracting, by a language-independent machine learning model, bounding boxes around first text groups in a sampled subset of video frames; outputting, by the machine learning model, pixel coordinates of the bounding boxes and predicted classifications of the first text g...