US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 23 for "Text block segmentation" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,007, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Text block segmentation" was invented by Ang Yi (Beijing), Jing Zhang (Beijing), Hai Cheng Wang (Beijing), Jun Hong Zhao (ShangDi, China), Rajesh M. Desai (San Jose, Calif.), Yang Zhong Li (Beijing) and Xue Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for text block segmentation includes determining a first text block segmentation pattern utilized to generate a segmented text block based, at least in part, on a comparison of semantic information associated with the segmented text block and a plurality of predef...