ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,498, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for context-aware crop in camera preview" was invented by Jyoti Johri (Bengaluru, India), Mayukh Das (Bengaluru, India) and Pradeep Nelahonne Shivamurthappa (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by an object cropping system of an electronic device, including: receiving, from a camera, a preview image including a plurality of objects; determining outline boundaries of the plurality of objects; determining a relevance score between the plurality of objects based on context of the plurality of ob...