ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,819, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to INNOPEAK TECHNOLOGY INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Real-time scene text area detection" was invented by Jiachen Li (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rongrong Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yuan Lin (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system obtains the image including one or more text areas, and generates a sequence of feature maps from the image based on a downsampling rate. Each feature map has a first dimension and a second dimension, and the feature maps include a first feature map and a second feature map. Each of the first and second dimensions of the first feature map has a respecti...