US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "Preprocessing for image segmentation" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,377, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Preprocessing for image segmentation" was invented by Vignesh Jagadeesh (Saratoga, Calif.), Lee A. Morgan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rohan Chandra (San Francisco), Shujie Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Yann Lifchitz (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology provide techniques for improved re-use of digital images, including creation of a new "sticker" image by extracting one or more objects from a prior image. In an implementation, images in a library may be preprocessed to identify image attributes of corresponding images in the library, ...