US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 17 for "Deterministic object alignment for background removal" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,253, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Deterministic object alignment for background removal" was invented by Eric Yi-hua Chen (Irvine, Calif.), Gregory Lee Hewett (Plano, Texas), Scott Henning (Fairview, Texas) and Shamim Sharifuddin Pirzada (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device may obtain a user-free first image of a background portion of a physical environment including a deterministic object. The device may then locate the deterministic object in a second image of the physical environment. The device may then generate, based on the deterministic ob...