Patent ID: 11887358
Assignee: ANCESTRY.COM OPERATIONS INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system for identifying and segmenting objects from images, the system comprising:
one or more memory devices storing a preprocessing module, a region-proposal module, and a prediction module; and
at least one processor coupled to the one or more memory devices, the at least one processor configured to perform operations comprising:
generating, utilizing the preprocessing module, a resized historical document image from a source historical document image;
determining, utilizing the region-proposal module, one or more regions of interest in the resized historical document image; and

generating, utilizing the prediction module to process pixels of the resized historical document image indicated by the one or more regions of interest, a predicted object defined by a classification and a set of bounding box coordinates within the resized historical document image.