ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,576, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Frame-based video segmentation" was invented by Xin Li (San Diego), Jiancheng Lyu (San Diego) and Yingyong Qi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of frame based image segmentation are provided. For example, a method for feature object tracking between frames of video data is provided. The method comprises receiving a first frame of video data, extracting a mask feature for each of one or more objects of the first frame, adjusting the first frame by applying each initial mask and corresponding identification to a respective object of the first ...