ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,621, issued on June 24, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"System and method for detecting an object within an image" was invented by Wenchao Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Guansong Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting an object in an image includes (i) processing, with a machine-learned model, pixel intensities of a pixel pair in a first region of the image, to determine a first confidence score representing a likelihood of the object being present within the first region, and (ii) determining, based on the first confidence score, presence of the object in the firs...