US Patent Issued to Ordnance Survey on Aug. 12 for "Pre-processing for automatic topographic feature extraction" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,467, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ordnance Survey Ltd. (London).

"Pre-processing for automatic topographic feature extraction" was invented by Harry Gibson (Southampton, Great Britain), Joseph Braybrook (Southampton, Great Britain), Kyriaki Dionysopoulou (Southampton, Great Britain) and Oliver Ralph (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for pre-processing image data to generate improved training data for training a machine learning system to automatically classify imagery. One or more images of a geographic region are captured and processed to obtain a p...