US Patent Issued to ABBYY Development on Aug. 12 for "Extracting multiple documents from single image" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,518, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ABBYY Development Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Extracting multiple documents from single image" was invented by Ivan Zagaynov (Dolgoprudniy, Russia) and Aleksandra Stepina (Dubna, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for document image detection, comprising: producing, using a neural network, a superpixel segmentation map of an input image; generating a superpixel binary mask by associating each superpixel of the superpixel segmentation map with a class of a predetermined set of classes; identifying one or more connected components in the superpixel binary mask; for each connected co...