ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,634, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HANWHA VISION Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Occlusion detection and object coordinate correction for estimating the position of an object" was invented by Chanyoung Sohn (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Ga Young Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a image processing apparatus and a method for controlling the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may identify an object from an acquired image, determine whether the object is hidden by another object by using an aspect ratio of a...