US Patent Issued to Verity on Oct. 20 for "Improving feature extraction using motion blur" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,288, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Verity AG (Zurich).

"Improving feature extraction using motion blur" was invented by Markus Hehn (Zurich, Switzerland) and Luciano Beffa (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for identifying at least one candidate feature in an image of a scene of interest captured by a camera, and to a method for capturing an image, with spatial variations in image sharpness, of a scene of interest by a camera, and to a method for determining a state xk of a camera at a time tk, as well as to an assembly and two computer program products."

The patent was...