ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,454, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, apparatus and computer readable media for object detection" was invented by Yazhao Li (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for object detection. A method comprises extracting a generic feature of an image characterizing one or more general properties of the image(310); identifying one or more regions of interest (ROIs) (320); generating scale information on one or more objects in the image based on the generic feature and one or more candidate scales(330); generating one or more scale-s...