ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,027, issued on April 22, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).

"PTZ masking control" was invented by Song Yuan (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an output video stream is provided, including receiving a first input video stream from at least one first camera capturing a scene, receiving a second input video stream from a second camera only partially capturing the scene, and generating an output video stream from the first input video stream, including, in response to determining that a particular area of the output video stream depicts a part of the scene depicted in the second input video stream, r...