ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,052, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Fingerprint segmentation method and device" was invented by Hanhui Li (Xi'an, China), ChunMiao Jiang (Xi'an, China), Xiaochun Yan (Xi'an, China), Huaiwen Bai (Xi'an, China), Jiangbo Chen (Xi'an, China), Wenyan Zheng (Xi'an, China) and Yanjun Chen (Xi'an, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fingerprint segmentation method and device is provided. The fingerprint segmentation method may include dividing a fingerprint image into a plurality of sub-images, pooling each sub-image to acquire a feature map of the fingerprint image, and segmentin...