ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,707, issued on March 18, was assigned to LEMON INC. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) and BEIJING YOUZHUJU NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Pre-training for scene text detection" was invented by Chuhui Xue (Singapore), Wenqing Zhang (Singapore), Yu Hao (Beijing) and Song Bai (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer readable storage medium of scene text detection. In the method, a first visual representation of a first image is generated with an image encoding process. A first textual representation of a first text unit in the first image is generated ...