ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,045, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Computationally efficient document stamp detector" was invented by Waqas Rasheed (Irvine, Calif.), Dongpei Su (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.), Kilho Shin (Torrance, Calif.) and Sheng Li (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital image comparator includes an Faster R-CNN configured to generate a filtered set of local feature maps of an input image, a match head, and logic to preserve the local feature maps in an indexed data structure and to make the local feature maps retrievable by the match head via local feature map indexes."
The p...