US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 11 for "Text detection algorithm for separating words detected as one text bounding box" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,168, issued on March 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Text detection algorithm for separating words detected as one text bounding box" was invented by Ophir Azulai (Tivon, Israel), Udi Barzelay (Haifa, Israel) and Oshri Pesah Naparstek (Karmiel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for text detection is provided. The present invention may include training a text detection model. The present invention may include performing text detection on an inputted image using the trained text detection model. The present invention may include de...