ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,196, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and electronic device for producing media file with blur effect" was invented by Kartik Verma (Chamba, India), Yash Awasthi (Kanpur, India) and Ashish Chopra (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a media file with a blur effect in an electronic device is provided. The method includes segmenting an image frame into a plurality of segments. Further, the method includes determining at least one segment from the plurality of segments comprising one of a foreground Region of Interest (ROI) and a background re...