US Patent Issued to Behr Process on June 24 for "Image processing to detect edges, walls, and surfaces for a virtual painting application" (Illinois, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,517, issued on June 24, was assigned to Behr Process LLC (Santa Ana, Calif.).

"Image processing to detect edges, walls, and surfaces for a virtual painting application" was invented by Douglas Milsom (Tacoma, Wash.), Un Ho Chung (Santa Ana, Calif.), Michael Askew (Chicago) and Kiki Takakura-Merquise (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided an include generating a depth map by performing depth estimation on an image having at least one wall, generating a first edge map that includes a first set of edge lines outlining the at least one wall by performing edge detection on the image, generating ...