US Patent Issued to GENETEC on March 17 for "Correction of camera configuration" (Null, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,689, issued on March 17, was assigned to GENETEC INC. (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

"Correction of camera configuration" was invented by Matej Kompanek (Ivanka pri Dunaji, Slovak Republic) and Matej Kopcik (Bruck an der Leitha, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatuses for correcting a camera configuration used in fixed-position surveillance. A video stream generated by the surveillance camera is obtained. A pattern present in pixel data of a frame of the video stream is analyzed to derive an initial orientation setting of the surveillance camera. An orientation delta bet...