ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,856, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Axis AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Masking of objects in an image stream" was invented by Ludvig Hassbring (Lund, Sweden) and Song Yuan (Lund, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of masking or marking an object in an image stream is provided, including: generating one or more output image streams by processing an input image stream capturing a scene, including discarding pixel information about the scene provided by pixels of the input image stream, such that the discarded pixel information about the scene is not included in any output image stream; and detecting an object in the scene using the...