ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,589, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Text line detection" was invented by Lei Sun (Beijing), Qiang Huo (Beijing), Chixiang Ma (Beijing) and Zhuoyao Zhong (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the present disclosure provide a solution for text line detection. In this solution, a first text region comprising a first portion of at least a first text element and a second text region comprising a second portion of at least a second text element are determined from an image. A first feature representation is extracted from the first text region and a second feature...