ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,263, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for two-stage objection detection" was invented by Ran Levy (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Amit Rozner (Yehud, Israel) and Yohay Falik (Petah Tiqwa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for detecting an object in an image, by applying, on a first input image, a first object detector configured to generate a bounding box around the object in the first input image. The implementations further include identifying a first bounding box havi...