ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,153, issued on March 3, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electronic device and method for selecting region of interest in image" was invented by Kuo-Huang Hsu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and An-Kai Jeng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an electronic device and a method for selecting a region of interest in an image. The method includes the following steps: receiving an image; using the image to obtain a plurality of regions of interest, wherein each of the plurality of regions of interest corresponds to an object danger level value; and using the object danger l...