ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,685, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Segmentation mask extrapolation" was invented by Qureshi Asma (Thornhill, Canada), Darren Gnanapragasam (Aurora, Canada), Alireza Shoa Hassani Lashdan (Burlington, Canada) and David Hansen (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for processing video data. For instance, a technique can include receiving a first image after a previous image. The process can further include receiving a first segmentation mask associated with the previous image. The process can also include estimating a first set of forward motion vector...