ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,713, issued on April 15, was assigned to Wuhan University (Wuhan, China).

"Method and system for detecting and repairing sun glint in UAV optical RGB ocean images" was invented by Ming Li (Wuhan, China), Jiangying Qin (Wuhan, China), Deren Li (Wuhan, China) and Jiageng Zhong (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a method and system for detecting and repairing sun glint in UAV optical RGB ocean image, introduces a sun glint attention module, and constructs a semantic segmentation network model based on attention mechanism. The sun glint region is segmtioned by semantic segmentation network model based on ...