US Patent Issued to TGI SPORT VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 20 for "Image processing method and apparatus" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,776, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TGI SPORT VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (London).

"Image processing method and apparatus" was invented by Niko Nevatie (Helsinki) and Erkki Parkkulainen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present invention relate to a computer-implemented training method for training a segmentation model to segment an image. The method includes receiving a plurality of first training data sets. The first training data sets each include first image data representing a first image consisting of a background or of a foreground and first annotation data identifying the presence solely of the backgr...