US Patent Issued to RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY on April 8 for "Apparatus and method for image segmentation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,065, issued on April 8, was assigned to RESEARCH COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF YEUNGNAM UNIVERSITY (Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for image segmentation" was invented by Gyu Sang Choi (Daegu, South Korea) and Hyun Kwang Shin (Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for image segmentation according to an embodiment includes an acquirer configured to acquire one or more images in which an object is photographed and a segmentation performer configured to perform segmentation on the one or more images using a segmentation model which is deep learned through a plurality of images, in w...