ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,382, issued on July 8, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Systems and methods for detecting text of interest" was invented by Ramanujam Ramaswamy Srinivasa (Bengaluru, India), Manish Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Pranav Aggarwal (Navi Mumbai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to detecting text of interest. In some embodiments, there is provided a system to detect vertically oriented text of interest including at least one camera and a control circuit configured to execute a trained machine learning model to automatically detect vertically o...