ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,408, issued on Sept. 9.
"Object detection based zonal OCR in an AR context" was invented by Fritz Ebner (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Ashish Tisgaonkar (Rochester, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for zonal OCR in an AR context is provided having a monitored device having text in at least one zone for indicating device states; a computer receives a picture of said monitored device and said text and processes said picture to determine a plurality of feature points; a database is in data communication with said computer and stores a plurality of reference images with reference feature points and reference zones; the computer match...