ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,978, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Image processing" was invented by Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland), Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi (Lempaala, Finland) and Miikka Tapani Vilermo (Siuro, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for image processing is disclosed. The method may include receiving an image from a camera sensor, receiving selection of one or more target objects appearing in the image and tracking the one or more target objects over a plurality of subsequently-received images. For the subsequently-received images in turn, the method may include estima...