ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,358, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MyScript (Nantes, France).
"System and method for text line and text block extraction" was invented by David Hebert (Nantes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a method implemented by a device for displaying strokes of digital ink in a display area and for performing text line extraction to extract text lines from the strokes. In particular, the text line extraction may involve slicing the display area into strips, ordering for each strip the strokes into ordered lists which form collectively a first set of ordered lists, forming for each strip a second set of ordered ...