US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, KONKUK UNIVERSITY INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus and method for compressing image for machine vision" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,781, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea) and KONKUK UNIVERSITY INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION CORP (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for compressing image for machine vision" was invented by Kyoung-Ro Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Han-Shin Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyon-Gon Choo (Daejeon, South Korea), Shin Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Ye-Gi Lee (Hanam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for compressing an image for machine vision, the method including detecting objects in an input image using an object detection netwo...