ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,657, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Image segmentation system" was invented by Menglei Chai (Los Angeles), David LeMieux (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Shubham Vij (Los Angeles) and Ian Wehrman (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image segmentation system to perform operations that include causing display of an image within a graphical user interface of a client device, receive a set of user inputs that identify portions of a background and foreground of the image, identify a boundary of an object depicted within the image based on the set of user inputs, crop the object from the i...