US Patent Issued to Axis on July 7 for "Method and device for anonymizing reidentification data in a visual tracking system" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,891, issued on July 7, was assigned to Axis AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method and device for anonymizing reidentification data in a visual tracking system" was invented by Song Yuan (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing anonymized data for facilitating reidentification in a visual tracking system, the method comprising: detecting, in images obtained from a plurality of image sources, subareas which each contain a tracking target; computing, for each subarea, a feature vector which represents a visual appearance of the tracking target therein; for a first/second subgroup of the image sources, providing first/secon...