METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING THE ORIENTATION OF A DIGITAL IMAGE

Patent №

US 8,023,770

Granted

2011-09-20

Filed 2008

Owner

SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA, INC.

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AI components

ml · nlp · vision · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12126514

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Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining the orientation of an electronic document image.

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Natural language0.97

Machine learning0.91

Evolutionary computation0.78

AI hardware0.47

Planning0.09

Knowledge representation0.09

Speech0.00

Ownership

SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA, INC.

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SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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Assignors

FERMAN, AHMET MUFIT, CAMPBELL, RICHARD JOHN

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