US Patent Issued to Gracenote on May 20 for "Methods and systems for scoreboard text region detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,439, issued on May 20, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Methods and systems for scoreboard text region detection" was invented by Jeffrey Scott (Oakland, Calif.), Markus Kurt Peter Cremer (Orinda, Calif.), Nishit Umesh Parekh (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Dewey Ho Lee (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system automatically detects, within a digital video frame, a video frame region that depicts a textual expression of a scoreboard. The computing system (a) engages in an edge-detection process to detect edges of at least scoreboard image elements depicted by the digital video frame, with at least so...