ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,892, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Detecting an object in an image using multiband multidirectional filtering" was invented by Dong Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Guofei Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection method includes performing multiband filtering on a first area to obtain a plurality of band sub-images, the first area being an area in a first video frame, and performing multidirectional filtering on the plurality of band sub-images to obtain a plurality of direction sub-images. The method further includes acquiring a direction-band fused fea...