US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 30 for "Object interaction detection and inferences using semantic learning" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,714, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Object interaction detection and inferences using semantic learning" was invented by Hugo Latapie (Long Beach, Calif.), Ozkan Kilic (Long Beach, Calif.), Adam James Lawrence (Pasadena, Calif.), Gaowen Liu (Austin, Texas) and Andrew Albert Pletcher (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device converts video data into a set of tracklets, each tracklet representing a different object depicted in the video data. The device identifies a particular object depicted in the video data as being an attractor or repulsor with r...