ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,832, issued on June 17, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system to detect a text from multimedia content captured at a scene" was invented by Apurba Das (Bangalore, India), Pallavi Saha (Bangalore, India), Jaimin Ashokbhai Bhoi (Bangalore, India), Nikhil Shaw (Bangalore, India) and Govind Jee (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detection of textual phrases in a non-horizontal orientation at a scene is a critical problem. This disclosure relates to a processor implemented method to detect a text from multimedia content captured at a scene. An input original image is processed by ...