US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A. on July 15 for "Method and apparatus to locate field labels on forms" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,739, issued on July 15, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A. INC. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus to locate field labels on forms" was invented by Yongmian Zhang (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus to identify field labels from filled forms using image processing to compare two or a few copies of the same kind of form, possibly filled out differently. Filled forms are processed to provide text strings, one for each line of text on each filled form. The text strings are converted to vectors. Vectors from different filled forms are compared to identify common words whi...