US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 28 for "Selective color replacement using image recognition" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,227, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Selective color replacement using image recognition" was invented by Kaoru Ohashi (Tokyo), Akira Fujiu (Mitaka, Japan), Kazuki Sekiguchi (Adachi, Japan) and Taihei Miyamoto (Nakano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for selective color replacement using image recognition, including a method for generating an image with improved accessibility for color vision diversity. The method may comprise, in an operation phase obtaining, as an output, a first set of objects included in a first image by inputting the first im...