ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,086, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for reducing false-positive detections in images of a video signal" was invented by Hannes Seibt (Friedberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information content of a section of a current image of a series of images of a video signal is calculated, wherein the video signal has to be fed to an algorithm for calculating and indicating detections of objects in the video signal. If the calculated information content of the section of the current image is smaller than a threshold value, the calculation and indication ...