US Patent Issued to United States Postal Service on Feb. 24 for "System and method for detecting an address block and barcode on a captured image of item, and reading the detected barcode using connected component analysis" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,542, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to United States Postal Service (Washington).

"System and method for detecting an address block and barcode on a captured image of item, and reading the detected barcode using connected component analysis" was invented by Ryan J. Simpson (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system and method for detecting an address block and barcode on a captured image of an item, and reading the detected barcode using connected component analysis. In one aspect, the method includes binarizing a captured image to generate a binarized image having pixel values, inverting ...