ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,308, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TCG Machines Inc. (Calgary, Canada).
"Method and apparatus for identifying characteristics of trading cards" was invented by Graeme Frederick Gordon (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for detecting characteristics of a card include a method for identifying a card containing foil, the foil detection method comprising converting an image file depicting a card into a hue, saturation, value ("HSV") colour space, applying a value mask to exclude a group of pixels from analysis that do not form an intensified brightness area, and comparing the number of remaining ...