ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,659, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Font attribute detection" was invented by Ophir Azulai (Tivon, Israel), Daniel Nechemia Rotman (Haifa, Israel) and Udi Barzelay (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for font attribute detection. The techniques include receiving a document having different font attributes amongst a plurality of words respectively comprised of at least one character. The techniques further include generating a dense image document from the document by setting the plurality of words to a predefined size, removing blank space...