US Patent Issued to Digimarc on Sept. 23 for "Statistical classification systems and methods for distinguishing content items from conveyor belts in automated detection environments" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,942, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Digimarc Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Statistical classification systems and methods for distinguishing content items from conveyor belts in automated detection environments" was invented by Adnan M. Alattar (Tigard, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to image signal processing. One aspect of the present technology involves analyzing reference imagery (e.g., depicting a conveyor belt) gathered by a camera system to determine which parts of an image frame offer higher probabilities of-relative to other image parts-containing content items. Image blocks representing...