ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,787, issued on April 15, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Content extraction based on graph modeling" was invented by Xiaodong Yu (Singapore) and Hewen Wang (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for extracting categorizable information from an image using a graph that models data within the image. Upon receiving an image, a data extraction system identifies characters in the image. The data extraction system then generates bounding boxes that enclose adjacent characters that are related to each other in the image. The data extraction system also creates connections between the boun...