US Patent Issued to Nielsen Consumer on April 15 for "Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to categorize image text" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,786, issued on April 15, was assigned to Nielsen Consumer LLC (Chicago).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to categorize image text" was invented by Roberto Arroyo (Guadalajara, Spain), David Jimenez (Guadalajara, Spain) and Javier Martinez Cebrian (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to categorize image text. An example apparatus includes region detection model training circuitry to identify candidate regions in an input image that include text, and generate bounding boxes around respective ones of the identified candidate regions. The exa...