US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 29 for "Detecting graphical elements in charts using predicted heatmaps" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,146, issued on July 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting graphical elements in charts using predicted heatmaps" was invented by Joseph Shtok (Haifa, Israel), Leonid Karlinsky (Mazkeret Batya, Israel), Sivan Harary (Haifa, Israel) and Ophir Azulai (Tivon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a processor to receive detected chart regions in a page of a document. The processor is to produce, via a graphical elements detector, predicted heatmaps and bounding boxes for graphical objects in the detected chart regions. The processor is also to apply chart type speci...