ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,986, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Annotation alignment for character recognition in documents" was invented by Xiang Yu (Berlin) and Christoph Meyer (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for aligning weakly-annotated data to recognized characters in a document are provided. In a method for aligning annotation data to recognized characters, annotation words and character recognition tokens are received, and a search algorithm is performed to align the annotation words to the tokens in a stepwise manner. At each step, an annotation word is aligned to one or more tokens, and a cost...