US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation on May 12 for "Apparatus and method with image matching" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,376, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method with image matching" was invented by Seung Wook Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea), Minsu Cho (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Juhong Min (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method includes: extracting feature maps respectively corresponding to a plurality of channels based on a convolutional network with respect to two images; generating a matching point map from the feature maps; refining the matching point...