ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,913, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and electronic device for recognizing text in image" was invented by Younguk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungsu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ohjoon Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yehoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunhan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyosang Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyungmin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an electronic device for recognizing text are provided. The method includes detecting positions of pieces of text included in the text in the image, generating croppe...