ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,974, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Real time object detection and tracking" was invented by Ibrahim Badr (New York), Roland Peter Kehl (Dubendorf, Switzerland), Kaan Yucer (San Francisco), Thomas Jonathan Stone (Zurich, Switzerland), Gokhan H. Bakir (Zurich, Switzerland) and Adrian Zumbrunnen (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for recognizing objects and providing content related to the recognized objects are described. In one aspect, a method includes detecting presence of one or more objects depicted in a viewfinder of a camera of the mobile ...