ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,178, issued on March 24, was assigned to Future Dial Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Grading cosmetic appearance of a test object" was invented by Yan Zhou (Mountain View, Calif.), Jisheng Li (Los Altos, Calif.), George Huang (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Chen Chen (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a processing device, a plurality of images of a test object, the plurality of images including a plurality of surfaces of the test object. The processing device selects a region of interest in each of the plurality of images, the region of interest comprising the test object having a background r...