ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,529, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).
"Logo recognition in images and videos" was invented by Jose Pio Pereira (Supertino, Calif.), Kyle Brocklehurst (Mountain View, Calif.), Sunil Suresh Kulkarni (San Jose, Calif.) and Peter Wendt (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accurately detection of logos in media content on media presentation devices is addressed. Logos and products are detected in media content produced in retail deployments using a camera. Logo recognition uses saliency analysis, segmentation techniques, and stroke analysis to segment likely logo regions. Logo recognition may suitabl...