US Patent Issued to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on Sept. 9 for "Line detection method" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,276, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Daegu, South Korea).

"Line detection method" was invented by Keonwon Seo (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for detecting a line in an image or a video. The method includes smoothing the image, selecting an area in which a line is to be detected, determining a center pixel in the selected area, applying a window centered on the center pixel, detecting a sum of gradient angle differences of pixels surrounding the center pixel, classifying the center pixel determined as the line candidat...