ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,207, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for AI segmentation-based registration for multi-frame processing" was invented by Yufang Sun (Plano, Texas), Akira Osamoto (Plano, Texas), John Seokjun Lee (Allen, Texas) and Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a reference frame from among multiple image frames of a scene. The method also includes generating a segmentation mask using the reference frame, where the segmentation mask contains information for separation of foreground and background in the scene. The meth...