US Patent Issued to ECOPIA TECH on March 3 for "Data augmentation for occlusion handling in feature extraction" (Chinese, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,242, issued on March 3, was assigned to ECOPIA TECH Corp. (Toronto).

"Data augmentation for occlusion handling in feature extraction" was invented by Yuanming Shu (Toronto), Yaolong Wang (Beijing) and Hongbo Wang (Hebi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems and methods for data augmentation for occlusion handling in feature extraction are provided. An example method involves accessing a tree cover source image that depicts one or more areas of tree cover, extracting a tree cover map from the tree cover source image that labels areas of the tree cover source image as either areas covered by tree cover or not covered by ...