US Patent Issued to L&T TECHNOLOGY SERVICES on Feb. 17 for "Method for extraction of table and figure region from engineering drawings" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,396, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to L&T TECHNOLOGY SERVICES Ltd. (Chennai, India).

"Method for extraction of table and figure region from engineering drawings" was invented by Triptesh Mallick (Bankura, India), Tarun Kumar Das (Digboi, India), Mridul Balaraman (Bangalore, India) and Madhusudan Singh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of extracting tables and figures from a drawing document is disclosed. The method may include processing coloured image to segmented binary image and extracting a plurality of horizontal lines and a plurality of vertical lines from a foreground of the image. The meth...