US Patent Issued on June 16 for "Feature selection for object tracking using motion mask, motion prediction, or both" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,739, issued on June 16.

"Feature selection for object tracking using motion mask, motion prediction, or both" was invented by Gang Qian (McLean, Va.), Sung Chun Lee (Fairfax, Va.), Sravanthi Bondugula (Vienna, Va.), Narayanan Ramanathan (Chantilly, Va.) and Allison Beach (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for feature selection for object tracking. One of the methods includes: obtaining first feature points of an object in a first image of a scene captured by a camera; obtaining a second image of the scene captured by the camera ...