ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,776, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SMART ENGINES SERVICE LLC (Moscow).

"Image quality assessment for text recognition in images with projectively distorted text fields" was invented by Iuliia Aleksandrovna Shemiakina (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Elena Evgenyevna Limonova (Moscow), Natalya Sergeevna Skoryukina (Moskovskaya oblast, Russia), Vladimir Viktorovich Arlazarov (Moscow) and Dmitry Petrovich Nikolaev (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image quality assessment for text recognition in images with projectively distorted text fields. A projective transformation is calculated from a restored rectangle, representing a restor...