ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,080, issued on April 22, was assigned to Fourth Logic Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Method of extracting and labeling connected elements in images" was invented by Jong Hyun Song (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jun Young Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of extracting and labeling connected elements in images, and more particularly, to a method of detecting connected elements formed as pixels are connected to one another in images and assigning label numbers thereto. A method of extracting and labeling connected elements of images of the present disclosure has t...