ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,291, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Techniques for image segmentation using object detection" was invented by Esteban F. Lopez (Bridgeton, Mo.), Liessman E. Sturlaugson (St. Louis) and Peter G. Rhodes (Bridgeton, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of performing image segmentation on an image. The method includes partitioning the image into a first plurality of cells, and applying an image classification model to some or all of the first plurality of cells to identify a first set of one or more cells that depict an object. The object is provided a first c...