US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A. on July 28 for "Method and apparatus employing context-aware optical character recognition to extract form information" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,703, issued on July 28, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A. INC. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus employing context-aware optical character recognition to extract form information" was invented by Ting Xu (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for context-aware character recognition, using surrounding materials from ambiguous characters to identify the ambiguous characters correctly. There is better optical character recognition (OCR) accuracy for intrinsically confusing characters, printed or handwritten, and increased information extraction accuracy for scanned forms, ...