ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,748, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Adeia Imaging LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated radial blurring based on saliency and co-saliency" was invented by Koteswar Rao Jerripothula (New Delhi), Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.), Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for automatically performing automated radial blurring. A plurality of images may be accessed, and saliency parameters may be determined based on at least one of the plurality of images. Co-saliency parameters may be determined based on the plurality of images. A region of interest (ROI) in...