ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,097, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Action recognition apparatus and method" was invented by Sohee Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An action recognition method of an action recognition apparatus operated by a processor includes, receiving a video image; detecting position values and joint prediction values of each of a plurality of joints for each of the plurality of image frames constituting the video image; calculating a position difference of each of the plurality of joints for each of the plurality of image frames; gene...