ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,257, issued on April 7, was assigned to Verso Vision Oy (Jyvaskyla, Finland).
"Monitoring system and method for recognizing the activity of determined persons" was invented by Katja Taalas (Jyvaskyla, Finland), Lauri Laaksonen (Lappeenranta, Finland), Lauri Faloon (Lappeenranta, Finland), Toni Kuparinen (Lappeenranta, Finland) and Sinan Kaplan (Lappeenranta, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring method of at least one person in a space includes receiving image data of the space, detecting at least one person from the image data, and determining the at least one detected person as a person to be monitored if it is detect...