US Patent Issued to Xerox on Nov. 18 for "Method and system for facilitating generation of background replacement masks for improved labeled image dataset collection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,649, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Method and system for facilitating generation of background replacement masks for improved labeled image dataset collection" was invented by Matthew A. Shreve (Campbell, Calif.) and Robert R. Price (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system captures, by a recording device, a scene with physical objects, the scene displayed as a three-dimensional (3D) mesh. The system marks 3D annotations for a physical object and identifies a mask. The mask indicates background pixels corresponding to a region behind the physical object. Each background pixel is as...