US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Aug. 25 for "Image-based detection using distance data" (Virginia, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,389, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Image-based detection using distance data" was invented by Donald Tolley (Alexandria, Va.), Hongcheng Wang (Arlington, Va.), Karen Chung (Lansdale, Pa.), Sara Cuesta Gonzalez (Philadelphia) and Toufiq Parag (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for detecting motion and/or objects in images using distance data. An image of an area to be monitored may be used to generate a distance map that maps distances between features in the area and a camera that took the image. Different reactions may be...