US Patent Issued to Snap on Dec. 16 for "Image visual quality assessment systems and methods" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,526, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Image visual quality assessment systems and methods" was invented by Meena De Schutter (Santa Monica, Calif.), Bo Feng (Los Angeles), Ruogu Zeng (Los Angeles) and Anbang Zhao (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of image quality assessment, performed by one or more processors in an image capture device, is disclosed. The method comprising receiving notification of capture of an image and in response, initiating an image assessment task to assess the quality of the image. The assessment task comprises determining suitability of the image for image q...