US Patent Issued to Hanwha Vision on April 21 for "System and device for counting people in side view image" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,947, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hanwha Vision Co. Ltd. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"System and device for counting people in side view image" was invented by Changho Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Hyunhak Shin (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surveillance camera and a control method for the surveillance camera are disclosed. The present disclosure makes it possible to determine whether at least one of a bounding box for a head region of an objected detected from a side view image and a bounding box for an entire body region thereof intersects a preset counting line, thereby counting people pas...