ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,447, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for providing dominant scene classification by semantic segmentation" was invented by Qingfeng Liu (San Diego), Mostafa El-Khamy (San Diego), Rama Mythili Vadali (San Diego), Tae-ui Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Andrea Kang (San Diego), Dongwoon Bai (San Diego), Jungwon Lee (San Diego), Maiyuran Wijay (San Diego) and Jaewon Yoo (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for computing a dominant class of a scene includes: receiving an input image of a scene; generating a segmentation map of the input im...