US Patent Issued to NEC on May 20 for "Foreground extraction apparatus, foreground extraction method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,687, issued on May 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Foreground extraction apparatus, foreground extraction method, and recording medium" was invented by Hideaki Sato (Tokyo), Kyota Higa (Tokyo), Yasunori Babazaki (Tokyo) and Hiroyoshi Miyano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a foreground extraction apparatus, an extraction result generation unit performs a foreground extraction using a plurality of foreground extraction models for an input image, and generates foreground extraction results. A selection unit selects one or more foreground extraction models among the plurality of foreground extraction models using respect...