US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Jan. 27 for "Electronic device and method for smoke level estimation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,250, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device and method for smoke level estimation" was invented by Wanxin Xu (San Jose, Calif.) and Ko-Kai Albert Huang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device for smoke estimation is provided. The electronic device receives a first image of a plurality of images of a physical space. The electronic device detects smoke in the physical space based on an application of a trained neural network model on the received first image. The electronic device generates a heatmap of the physical space based on the detected smoke in the physical...