US Patent Issued to Thales Holdings UK on Aug. 11 for "Methods and systems for discriminating between objects of interest and background in images" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,757, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Thales Holdings UK Plc (Reading, Great Britain).

"Methods and systems for discriminating between objects of interest and background in images" was invented by Martins Aimufua (Reading, Great Britain), Paul Hughes (Reading, Great Britain) and Paul Berry (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: receiving a first image captured on an image sensor; obtaining a scene estimate for the first image, wherein the scene estimate comprises an estimate of the background signal for a region of space being imaged onto the sensor; storing the scene estimate in memory; receivi...