US Patent Issued to The Weather on April 29 for "Layering modifications defined in a rule on a set of objects detected within a frame" (California, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,278, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Weather Co. LLC (Brookhaven, Ga.).

"Layering modifications defined in a rule on a set of objects detected within a frame" was invented by Thai Quoc Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Cindy Han Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Megan Kostick (Edmonds, Wash.) and Michael Brewer (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes performing object detection on a frame to identify a set of objects within the frame, and determining a location of each object of the set of objects within the frame. The method further includes constructing a code tree structu...