ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,508, issued on May 12, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Household appliance video analysis" was invented by Michael Goodman Schroeder (Crestwood, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video captured by a camera assembly of a household appliance includes a plurality of frames. Methods of analyzing the video may include calculating a plurality of median frames of the video, determining an area of one of the plurality of frames contains an object of interest, and isolating the determined area for analysis of the object of interest. Methods of analyzing the video may include identifying an object of in...