US Patent Issued to Black Sesame Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Strip decoder and inside-outside loss for high quality image segmentation" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,056, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Black Sesame Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Strip decoder and inside-outside loss for high quality image segmentation" was invented by Xibeijia Guan (Singapore), Tiecheng Wu (Singapore) and Bo Li (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a system for image segmentation for detecting an object. More particularly, the system performs two-stage segmentation on the object in the image to generate an enhanced image. The first stage is the object detection, followed by a second stage including segmentation. The invention segments the object from a background of the ima...