ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,110, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System and method for synthetic data generation using dead leaves images" was invented by Mingzhao Yu (State College, Pa.), Zeeshan Nadir (Allen, Texas), Hamid R. Sheikh (Allen, Texas) and John W. Glotzbach (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a raw image in a first image domain. The method also includes determining a color distribution and an amount of variation in the raw image. The method further includes using an iterative process to generate a dead leaf image from a blank image in the first image domai...