US Patent Issued to AXIS on Sept. 1 for "Masking a detected object in a video stream" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,264, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Masking a detected object in a video stream" was invented by Axel Keskikangas (Lund, Sweden), Song Yuan (Lund, Sweden) and Viktor Edpalm (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method mask an object in a video stream. The camera is arranged in a system including the camera and another device. A location and field of view is known for the device and the camera. Furthermore, the field of view of the device and the camera are non-overlapping. Information indicating that an object is approaching the field of view of the camera is obtained. The obtained i...