US Patent Issued to Axis on Aug. 19 for "Tag for indicating a region of interest and method for finding a region of interest in an image" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,204, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Axis AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Tag for indicating a region of interest and method for finding a region of interest in an image" was invented by Jiandan Chen (Lund, Sweden) and Haiyan Xie (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tag for indicating a region of interest, ROI, has a predefined format and codes ROI information, which is readable by imaging the tag and which includes a size indication and a relative position indication, the respective indications allowing the ROI's size and position to be determined relative to the tag's size and position. A method for locating a ROI in an image comp...