US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Document image analysis using joint prediction of layout elements and reading order" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,439, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Document image analysis using joint prediction of layout elements and reading order" was invented by Yair Kittenplon (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Niv Berchi Nayman (Shoham, Israel), Alona Golts (Haifa, Israel) and Ron Litman (Tel-Avi, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A labeled data set which indicates layout elements within document images, as well as a reading order for the layout elements, is obtained. Using the data set and a combined loss function, a machine learning model is trained to predict respective content classes of layout elements identified w...