ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,107, issued on March 24, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Document optical character recognition" was invented by Braddock Gaskill (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Robinson Piramuthu (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicles and other items often have corresponding documentation, such as registration cards, that includes a significant amount of informative textual information that can be used in identifying the item. Traditional OCR may be unsuccessful when dealing with non-cooperative images. Accordingly, features such as dewarping, text alignment, and line identification and removal may aid in OCR of non-c...