ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,279, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AUTOBRAINS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Segmentation-based generation of bounding shapes" was invented by Michal Nir (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that is computer implemented and for segmentation-based generation of bounding shapes, the method includes (i) obtaining a bounding shape that bounds an object captured in a sensed information unit; (ii) generating a cropped image in correspondence with the bounding shape; (iii) segmenting the cropped image to a cropped image background and a cropped image foreground; and (iv) generating an updated bounding shape...