ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,002, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Distributed camera system" was invented by Poorna Kale (Folsom, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system having a central station and a plurality of cameras installed various locations. To search for and locate an item of interest, the central station generates and sends an item model to the cameras. When stored in a camera, the item model causes a logic circuit of the camera (e.g., a deep learning accelerator) to use image data, received from an image sensor for storing in a memory device of the camera, as an input to an artificial neural network. ...