Patent ID: 11954903
Assignee: UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICES
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A method of automatically recognizing geographical area information provided on an item, the method comprising:
capturing, at an optical scanner, geographical area information provided on an item, the geographical area information comprising a plurality of geographical area components, wherein the geographical area components comprise two or more of a largest geographical area component, at least one intermediate geographical area component and a smallest geographical area component;
running a first machine learning or deep learning model trained to recognize the largest geographical area component;
subsequent to running the first machine learning or deep learning model, running a second machine learning or deep learning model trained to recognize the at least one intermediate geographical area component within the recognized largest geographical area component; and
subsequent to running the second machine learning or deep learning model, running a third machine learning or deep learning model trained to recognize the smallest geographical area component within the recognized at least one intermediate geographical area component.