US Patent Issued to Nice on June 16 for "Methods and systems for detecting stamps in scanned documents" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,937, issued on June 16, was assigned to Nice Ltd. (Israel).

"Methods and systems for detecting stamps in scanned documents" was invented by Alexander Vaindiner (Or-Akiva, Israel), Vitaly Shelest (Holon, Israel) and Ziv Brodie (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting stamps include if at least one regular shape in an image of a document is detected then outputting said at least one regular shape as a stamp; else: removing at least one of text, lines, and noise in the image of the document; and if at least one closed shape is remaining in the image of the document, then inscribing said at least ...