US Patent Issued to Trimble on Feb. 24 for "Image segmentation for automatic direct measurement and scanning" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,935, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Image segmentation for automatic direct measurement and scanning" was invented by Guillaume Clin (Christchurch, New Zealand), Stuart Edward Ralston (Christchurch, New Zealand) and Dylan White (Christchurch, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Measurement devices such as total stations or laser scanners equipped with camera sensors can capture an image of an environment. An image segmentation model can identify and segment environmental features in the image. The measurement device can display an overlay of the segmented features on top of the image. Wh...