ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,965, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image segmentation method and device" was invented by Suji Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungjun Shin (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dokwan Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device extracts feature data from an input image, calculates one or more class maps from the feature data using a classifier layer, calculates one or more cluster maps from the feature data using a clustering layer, and generates image segmentation data using the one or more class maps and the one or more cluster maps."
The paten...