ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,254, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Image content classification" was invented by Huan Dou (Beijing), Lidong Xu (Beijing), Xiaoxia Cai (Beijing), Chen Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Yi-Jen Chiu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for image content classification is described herein. The method includes counting a number of distinct color numbers in an image. The method also includes clustering blocks with a same distinct color number into a same class and determining a block occupancy rate of each color number for the image. Finally, the method includes classifying the image a...