US Patent Issued to Sony Group on April 29 for "Object and feature detection in images" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,357, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Object and feature detection in images" was invented by Par Spjuth (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Sangxia Huang (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Olivier Moliner (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Rickard Andersson (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Adam Jalkemo (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device is configured to obtain a sequence of images of a scene captured by an image sensor, determine an analysis area for an object in a respective image in the sequence of images, and process the respective image within the analysis area for detecti...