ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,666, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Activity zone for camera video" was invented by Sara Bolouki (Mountain View, Calif.), Yah Yah Cason (Las Vegas), Jonghoon Jin (Cupertino, Calif.), Nils Angquist (Los Altos, Calif.), Hendrik Dahlkamp (Redwood City, Calif.) and Patrick L. Coffman (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for establishing an activity zone within video captured by a camera. A user device may establish an activity zone or an exclusion zone within video representing a physical view captured by the camera. An automatic monitoring system may analyze ...