ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,871, issued on March 17, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).
"Camera detection of object movement with co-occurrence" was invented by Narayanan Ramanathan (Chantilly, Va.), Allison Beach (Leesburg, Va.), Gang Qian (McLean, Va.) and Donald Gerard Madden (Columbia, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for camera detection of human activity with co-occurrence are disclosed. A method includes detecting a person in an image captured by a camera; in response to detecting the person in the image, determining optical flow in portions of a first set of images; determining that particular portions...