IDENTIFYING IMPORTANT DOCUMENT CONTENT USING GEOMETRIES OF PAGE ELEMENTS

Patent №

US 9,753,901

Granted

2017-09-05

Filed 2013

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13890851

Systems and techniques are provided for detecting columns of an electronic page based on a render of the electronic page and identification of one or more columns based on the render. A column of interest may be identified based on detecting the one or more columns based on a physical position of the column, a column size, and/or the content within the column. The column of interest may be used to index or categorize the electronic page as the most relevant information corresponding to the page may be contained in the column of interest.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language1.00
AI hardware1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation0.99
Vision0.02
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 304240581

Assignors

XU, YIFAN, MI, XIAOFENG

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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