ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,820, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Template based text restoration" was invented by Hunsop Hong (Irvine, Calif.) and Seongnam Oh (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes comparing, by a computing device, an input character signal with one or more prestored character templates for determining an estimated difference measure. The computing device, based on the estimated difference measure, determines one or more mixing weights between a stored character patch buffer and a current input character patch fo...