ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,665, issued on June 23, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for motion detection and circuit system" was invented by Jyun-Yi Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chun-Hsien Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for motion detection and a circuit system are provided. In the method, when any moving object within a scene is sensed, continuous frame images are obtained. Each of the frame images is divided into multiple regions. Brightness and chromaticity of each region are calculated frame by frame, and are compared with a background model to obtain a difference. Accordingly, a movement even...