ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,522, issued on May 20, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Video monitoring with robust privacy masking" was invented by Ludvig Hassbring (Lund, Sweden), Jessica Nilsson (Lund, Sweden), Tim Borglund (Lund, Sweden), Johan Nystrom (Lund, Sweden) and Michael Barnes (Lund, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller interacts with an image processing chain configured to process a video stream captured by a video camera and including an object detection algorithm which outputs a frame-wise detection score for each image region, and a masking function which applies a privacy mask in dependence of the detection score. When the c...