ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,261, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Digital image sub-division and analysis for neighboring sub-image identification" was invented by Yanwei Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Pascal Pare (Bothell, Wash.), Christopher Douglas Edmonds (Carnation, Wash.), Mark Anthony Plagge (Sammamish, Wash.), Miguel Susffalich (Kirkland, Wash.) and Anuj Bharat Gosalia (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital image processing methods performed by a computer are disclosed. In one example, a first digital image captured by a real camera is sub-divided into a first plurality of sub-images. A ...