ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,697, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for action detection" was invented by Jin-Young Moon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sun-Ah Min (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for action detection. The method for action detection includes extracting chunk-level features for respective video frame chunks from a streaming video ranging from a past time point to a current time point, based on RGB frames, generating elevated feature information based on a chunk-level feature corresponding t...