US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Sept. 16 for "Automatically generating best digital images of a person in a physical environment" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,637, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Automatically generating best digital images of a person in a physical environment" was invented by Ethan Sommer (Minneapolis) and Christopher Brakob (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides for generating best images of a person in a retail environment. A method may include receiving, by an edge computing device from a camera, a continuous stream of image data of the retail environment, detecting, using object detection techniques, a person in the image data, the image data including a group of images that are part of a ...