ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,333, issued on June 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Real-time recognition of relevant objects in images" was invented by Kevin W. Brew (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Michael S. Gordon (Croton on Hudson, N.Y.), Brian Paul Gaucher (Brookfield, Conn.) and Matthew Beck (Danbury, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product recognize relevant objects in images in real time. The method includes capturing an image of a surrounding environment using a device. The method also includes identifying an object and a shape of the object in the imag...