ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,311, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Object recognition method and object recognition apparatus" was invented by Sungheon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngjun Kwak (Seoul, South Korea), Byungin Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Solae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yong-Il Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hana Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jiho Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an object recognition method and object recognition apparatus. The object recognition method may include detecting an object region comprising an object in an input image, determi...