ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,216, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Contextually-aware power reduction techniques" was invented by Ramkrishna Swamy (Morgan Hill, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for power reduction of a camera system are disclosed. A camera system receives, via an image sensor, a video signal including a plurality of image frames, each frame including a plurality of pixels representing a plurality of objects. The camera system detects an object in an image frame and determines an amount of motion of the object by identifying and comparing the position of the object between each frame of...