US Patent Issued to Baidu USA on June 10 for "Vision-based safety monitoring and/or activity analysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,345, issued on June 10, was assigned to Baidu USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Vision-based safety monitoring and/or activity analysis" was invented by Sibo Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Liangjun Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are embodiments of a vision-based object perception system for activity analysis, safety monitoring, or both. Embodiments of the perception subsystem detect multi-class objects (e.g., construction machines and humans) in real-time while estimating the poses and actions of the detected objects. Safety monitoring embodiments and object activity analysis embodiments may be ba...