US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Image segmentation apparatus and image segmentation method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,225, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image segmentation apparatus and image segmentation method" was invented by Shuolin Liu (Beijing), Yunxin Zhong (Beijing), Sha Wang (Beijing) and Xueru Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image segmentation apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured: to calculate a variable field-of-view mathematical function capable of adaptively generating fields of view having corresponding sizes, with respect to a plurality of segmentation targets included in an image; to generate patches having corresponding sizes, with respect to the plura...