US Patent Issued to Maplebear on May 13 for "Subregion transformation for label decoding by an automated checkout system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,529, issued on May 13, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Subregion transformation for label decoding by an automated checkout system" was invented by Ganglu Wu (Shanghai), Shiyuan Yang (Shanghai), Xiao Zhou (Shanghai), Qi Wang (Shanghai), Qunwei Liu (Shanghai) and Youming Luo (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated checkout system modifies received images of machine-readable labels to improve the performance of a label detection model that the system uses to decode item identifiers encoded in the machine-readable labels. For example, the automated checkout system may transform subregions of an image of a ...