ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,580, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and electronic device for recognizing image context" was invented by Kiran Nanjunda Iyer (Bengaluru, India), Biplab Ch Das (Bengaluru, India) and Sathish Chalasani (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recognizing image context by an electronic device includes capturing a first image frame from a preview of an imaging sensor of the electronic device, recognizing a first scene that is captured in the first image frame, recognizing second scenes in a plurality of image frames that is not captured in the first im...