US Patent Issued to L'Oreal on June 30 for "Machine image colour extraction and machine image construction using an extracted colour" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,524, issued on June 30, was assigned to L'Oreal (Paris).

"Machine image colour extraction and machine image construction using an extracted colour" was invented by Eric Elmoznino (Toronto), Parham Aarabi (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Yuze Zhang (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods to perform colour extraction from swatch images and to define new images using extracted colours. Source images may be classified using a deep learning net (e.g. a CNN) to indicate colour representation strength and drive colour extraction. A clustering classifier is trained to use feature vectors extracted by t...