US Patent Issued to Axis on Oct. 20 for "Video stream encoding both overview and region-of-interest(s) of a scene" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,859, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Axis AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Video stream encoding both overview and region-of-interest(s) of a scene" was invented by Song Yuan (Lund, Sweden) and Viktor Edpalm (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding a video stream includes obtaining images of a scene captured by a camera at a first resolution; identifying regions of interest (ROIs) in an image; adding, as part of an encoded video stream, a first video frame encoding at least part of the image at a second resolution lower than the first resolution; adding a second video frame marked as a no-display frame, and being an i...