US Patent Issued to ObjectVideo Labs on March 31 for "Ground plane filtering of video events" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,980, issued on March 31, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).

"Ground plane filtering of video events" was invented by Narayanan Ramanathan (Chantilly, Va.), Kyoung-Jin Park (Ellicott City, Md.), Gang Qian (McLean, Va.), Allison Beach (Leesburg, Va.) and Donald Gerard Madden (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for ground plane filtering of video events are disclosed. A method includes obtaining a first set of images of a scene from a camera; determining a ground plane from the first set of images of the scene; obtaining a second set of images of the scene after the first set o...