US Patent Issued to SAP on July 21 for "Machine learning-based diagram label recognition" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,725, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Machine learning-based diagram label recognition" was invented by Bernhard Schaefer (Worms, Germany) and Andreas Gerber (Konigsbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are disclosed for machine learning-based diagram label recognition in connection with diagrams represented by unstructured images. An unstructured image of the diagram is received. A plurality of text blocks associated with the diagram is detected. The text blocks are associated with labels contained within the diagram. Textual contents of the text blocks and the labels are recognized. ...