ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,811, issued on June 23, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus and image reading apparatus judging title of read document" was invented by Naomichi Higashiyama (Osaka, Japan), Kunihiko Tanaka (Osaka, Japan), Kota Kamisono (Osaka, Japan) and Noa Kaneda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image reading apparatus, a character area extractor extracts character areas from a document image in units of rows. A title reliability calculator calculates a title reliability level of each character area using a feature quantity data set and a machine learning model. A chara...