US Patent Issued to GoPro on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for object detection in spherical videos" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,159, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for object detection in spherical videos" was invented by Amine Chadli (San Mateo, Calif.), Rawia Mhiri Ep Hakim (Lille, France), Ralph McEntagart (Ville en Sallaz, France) and Amine Belhakimi (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wide field of view video is split into multiple perspective projections, with individual perspective projections providing a two-dimensional view of a spatial extent of the wide field of view video. Object detection is performed within individual perspective projections to determine the placement of the objects wi...