US Patent Issued to Givatar on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for optical character recognition of text and information on a curved surface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,890, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Givatar Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for optical character recognition of text and information on a curved surface" was invented by William E. Becorest (San Diego) and Yongkeng Xiao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optical character recognition (OCR) on a surface, comprising: activating an image capture device; scanning the surface to obtain a plurality of scans of sections of the surface; performing OCR on the plurality of scans; separating the OCRed content into layers for each of the plurality of scans; merging these layers into single layers; and combining the ...