ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,121, issued on March 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Pattern recognition for identifying indistinct entities" was invented by Rajesh Kumar Saxena (Thane East, India), Harish Bharti (Pune, India), Pinaki Bhattacharya (Pune, India), Sandeep Sukhija (Rajasthan, India) and Dinesh Wadekar (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identifying an indistinct entity within an image can include generating by an image filter multiple gradients, each of which corresponds to one of a plurality of pixels of an image captured by an imager. The image can be searched for a likely repeating pattern. Respon...