US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on May 27 for "Real-time occlusion removal using synthetic pixel generation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,212, issued on May 27, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Real-time occlusion removal using synthetic pixel generation" was invented by Prakash Ranganathan (Tamilnadu, India) and Saurabh Tahiliani (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein utilize synthetic pixel generation using a custom neural network to generate synthetic versions of objects hidden by occlusions for effective detection and tracking. A computing device stores an object detector model and a synthetic image generator model; receives a video feed; detects objects of interest in a cur...