US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A. on Aug. 5 for "Method, apparatus, and system for character recognition using context" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,720, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A. INC. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Method, apparatus, and system for character recognition using context" was invented by Ting Xu (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network-based optical character recognition (OCR) method, system, and apparatus may use context provided by a neural network-based language model (LM) to improve character recognition in images. In embodiments, a fuzzy OCR system receives an input image and uses aggregated classes of visually similar characters to identify a most probable aggregated class of visually similar ch...