US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 3 for "Methods and systems for person detection in a video feed" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,874, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for person detection in a video feed" was invented by Rizwan Ahmed Chaudhry (Palo Alto, Calif.), Navneet Dalal (Mountain View, Calif.), Jonathan Z. Ben-Meshulam (Mountain View, Calif.) and George Alban Heitz III (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for providing event alerts. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a video feed. A frame of the video feed is analyzed at a first resolution to determine whether the frame includes a potential inst...