ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,506, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Axis AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method and system for calibration of detection thresholds in video object detection" was invented by Ludvig Hassbring (Lund, Sweden), Mikael Murstam (Lund, Sweden) and Joakim Ericson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting objects in a scene comprises capturing video of the scene, segmenting a first image in into first and second scene areas whereby detection conditions are expected to differ between the scene areas. A first object detection threshold is set for the first scene area. A first object in the first image is detected, a first confid...