ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,550, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Suzhou Cleva Precision Machinery & Technology Co. Ltd..

"Chrominance component-based image segmentation method and system, image segmentation device, and readable storage medium" was invented by Shaoming Zhu (Suzhou, China) and Xue Ren (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image segmentation method based on a chrominance component. The method includes the following steps: obtaining a chrominance component of an image; generating a chrominance component histogram according to the chrominance component; determining peaks and troughs in the chrominance ...