US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Aug. 26 for "Table recognition method and apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,439, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Table recognition method and apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Lei Ding (Beijing), Bin Dong (Beijing), Shanshan Jiang (Beijing), Jiashi Zhang (Beijing) and Yongwei Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a table recognition method and apparatus. The table recognition method includes steps of obtaining an image vision feature and a character content feature of a table image; fusing the image vision feature and the character content feature of the table image to acquire a first fusion feature, and carrying out recog...