US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 25 for "Method for generating regions of interest based on data extracted from navigational charts" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,664, issued on March 25, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Method for generating regions of interest based on data extracted from navigational charts" was invented by Adrian Mai (San Diego) and Douglas Seth Lange (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting data from a single-layer raster navigational chart (RNC) comprising: using a computer vision algorithm to extract color, text and symbol data from the RNC, storing the color, text, and symbol data in a database, and building an RNC data vector based solely on the color, text, and symbol data of...