ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,557, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Image augmentation device and method" was invented by Yung-Hui Li (New Taipei, Taiwan), Shen-Hsuan Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Wenny Ramadha Putri (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image augmentation device is provided, which includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured for performing following operations: extracting a first object contour from a first image mask, wherein the first object contour corresponds to a first label; superimposing the first object contour to a superimposed region in a second...