US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Feb. 24 for "Automatic orientation correction for captured images" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,934, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Automatic orientation correction for captured images" was invented by Jason Pribble (McLean, Va.), Swapnil Patil (Chantilly, Va.) and Timothy Tran (Springfield, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may receive an image of a document, the image depicting a reference feature associated with the document, the reference feature including at least one of: a face of a person, a machine-readable code, or a text field. The device may identify a rotational angle of the reference feature as depicted in the image based on comparing t...