ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,041, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Systems and methods for managing metadata" was invented by Joacim Tullberg (Lund, Sweden) and Timo Sachse (Lund, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for managing metadata associated with an object detected in an image, where the object corresponds to an area of the image are disclosed. A metadata item associated with the object is obtained, where the metadata item includes an identification of the area, and a quantitative level of an image data characteristic of the area or of the area as encoded is determined. A condition in relation to the determin...