US Patent Issued to Adeia Imaging on Sept. 9 for "Methods and systems for extracting objects from an image" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,855, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Adeia Imaging LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for extracting objects from an image" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for object extraction from images influenced by depth of field settings. Through control circuitry, an image subjected to a prior segmentation operation is acquired. A subsequent segmentation operation is performed, modulating the depth of field setting to its extreme values, producing two distinct segmented images. From these, an in-focus object is derived, forming delineated representations...