ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,605, issued on March 25, was assigned to Axis AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Device and a method for merging candidate areas" was invented by Jiandan Chen (Lund, Sweden), Hanna Bjorgvinsdottir (Lund, Sweden) and Ludvig Pettersson (Lund, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method merge a first candidate area relating to a candidate feature in a first image and a second candidate area relating to a candidate feature in a second image. The first and second images have an overlapping region, and at least a portion of the first and second candidate areas are located in the overlapping region. An image overlap size is determined indic...