US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 22 for "Methods and systems for semantically segmenting a source text image based on a text area threshold determination" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,694, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Methods and systems for semantically segmenting a source text image based on a text area threshold determination" was invented by Andrea D. Kang (San Diego), Jinhong Wu (San Diego) and Mostafa El-Khamy (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a binary annotation of source text; performing a close operation on the binary annotation to generate a closed annotation using an initial kernel size; defining one or more contours in the closed annotation using one or more bounding boxes, respectively; determining a subse...