Patent Text Recognition Using Overlapping Word-Vector Voting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing text recognition methods, particularly for patent documents, suffer from low accuracy and efficiency due to broad bibliographic information recognition and reliance on rule indexing or manual indexing, which often misses important patent information.

Innovation Solution

A text recognition method that determines overlapping character strings, converts them into word vectors, and uses a voting mechanism to identify effect text or non-effect text, utilizing an effect recognition model trained on multiple language training texts to enhance accuracy and efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If rule indexing is used to determine effect text, then the method is easy to implement, but important patent information is omitted leading to low accuracy

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveEase of implementationVSAvoidText recognition accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The text is segmented into multiple overlapping character strings with different strides. Instead of processing the entire text as one unit, the method divides it into smaller segments that are processed individually and then combined through voting, thereby improving recognition accuracy while maintaining implementation simplicity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a feedback mechanism through voting operations. Multiple character strings that overlap and contain the same effect text will vote for the same result, and the voting mechanism aggregates these feedback signals to determine the final recognition result, reducing omissions and improving accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If manual indexing is used to determine effect text, then text recognition accuracy is high, but a lot of manpower is required resulting in low efficiency

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveText recognition accuracyVSAvoidText recognition efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically processing text recognition without requiring manual indexing. The automated pipeline includes text segmentation, word vector conversion, and voting-based result determination, achieving both high accuracy and high efficiency by eliminating manual intervention entirely

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical manual indexing process with an automated computational system. Manual human effort is substituted by an automated pipeline involving text segmentation, word vector conversion, and voting operations, thereby maintaining high accuracy while dramatically improving efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Adaptability or versatility

If broad bibliographic information is used for text recognition, then the scope of recognition is comprehensive, but the accuracy of recognizing effect text is low

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveScope of recognitionVSAvoidEffect text recognition accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by treating different regions of the text differently. Instead of uniform processing, it segments the text into character strings with varying strides, allowing different local regions to be processed with appropriate granularity. This enables comprehensive scope while improving effect text recognition accuracy through localized focused processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS12554928B2Text recognition method and apparatus, computer-readable storage medium and electronic device
Publication Date: 2026.02.17 PATSNAP LIMITED
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AI summary

A text recognition method, a text recognition apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device are provided. In the text recognition method, adjacent character strings in a plurality of character strings partially overlap, so that the plurality of character strings may reflect the relationship between the contexts of a text to be recognized, then word vector conversion is performed on the plurality of character strings to obtain a plurality of word vectors, word vector recognition results respectively corresponding to the plurality of word vectors are generated on the basis of the plurality of word vectors to determine whether a text corresponding to the word vectors is an effect text or a non-effect text, and the plurality of word vector recognition results are synthesized to determine a text recognition result of the text to be recognized.