ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,727, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NUVI LABS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for object identification using hierarchical model" was invented by Dae Hoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jey Yoon Ru (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for object identification using a hierarchical model. An object identification method using a hierarchical model according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises detecting an object area from an object image in which an object is located based on a trained object area extraction model and croppin...