US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 5 for "Unified scene text detection and layout analysis" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,712, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Unified scene text detection and layout analysis" was invented by Shangbang Long (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Siyang Qin (Danville, Calif.), Dmitry Panteleev (Princeton, N.J.), Alessandro Bissacco (Los Angeles), Yasuhisa Fujii (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Michail Raptis (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for jointly performing text detection and layout analysis. In one aspect, a method comprises processing the image and a set of object queries to generate an encod...