METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE FOR RECEIPT DECODING

Patent №

US 11,768,993

Granted

2023-09-26

Filed 2022

Owner

NIELSEN CONSUMER LLC

+1 more

Lab

AI components

4

nlp · vision · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17883309

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for receipt decoding. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to execute instructions to extract text from the receipt image, the text including bounding boxes; associate ones of the bounding boxes to link horizontally related fields of a the receipt image by selecting a first bounding box; identifying first horizontally aligned bounding boxes, the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to include at least one bounding box of the bounding boxes that is horizontally aligned relative to the first bounding box; adding the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to a word sync list; and connecting ones of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and the first bounding box based on at least one of an amount of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes in the word sync list and a relationship among the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and the first bounding box.

Natural languageVisionEvolutionary computationAI hardwareG06F 40/131G06F 18/22G06F 40/295G06V 10/22G06V 10/25G06V 10/255G06V 10/26G06V 10/36+16 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Vision1.00
AI hardware0.92
Evolutionary computation0.80
Planning0.34
Knowledge representation0.18
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

NIELSEN CONSUMER LLC

assignment · 611280295

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

assignment · 614530871

Assignors

SHANMUGANATHAN, KANNAN, MASTHAN, HUSSAIN, ALLAM, RAJU KUMAR, YEBES TORRES, JOSE JAVIER, SOUNDARARAJAN, PADMANABHAN

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