ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,770, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DEO N.V. (Beringen, Belgium).
"Method for anonymizing video data" was invented by Jeroen Willem Rita Dille (Genk, Belgium) and Niels Festjens (Genk, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for anonymizing video data in a hospital environment includes obtaining video data using a video camera, where the video data includes a sequence of a plurality of digital images each comprising a plurality of pixels, determining at least one region of interest, ROI, within a digital image, detecting if a ROI comprises identification features which allow the identification of a person in the hospital ...