ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,852, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Optical character recognition for augmented images" was invented by Kevin Sarabia Dela Rosa (Seattle), Byung Eun Jeon (Seattle) and Zelun Wang (Malden, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for performing optical character recognition on augmented images. The system accesses an image depicting a real-world environment augmented with a graphical element. The system recognizes the graphical element in the image by applying a machine learning (ML) model to the image. The system stores a standard code representing the graphical ele...