ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,274, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Rapsodo Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Object refinement in digital image" was invented by Dejiang Xu (Singapore), Kelvin Soon Keat Yeo (Singapore) and Batuhan Okur (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pixel intensity differences between pixel values of a region in a first image frame and the region in a second image frame are determined, where the region in the first image frame includes an image of a spherical object, with no overlapping spherical object in the second image frame. Based on the pixel intensity differences, the region of the first image frame is thresholded into foreground pixels...