US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 9 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,409, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Ken Achiwa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus that extracts one or more candidate character strings to be a candidate of an item value corresponding to a predetermined item, from among multiple character strings included in a document image to be processed. The information processing apparatus first obtains information indicating an attribute group of a preset extraction target, then identifies an attribute group ...