ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,866, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and systems for temporal action localization of video data" was invented by Yanhui Guo (Hamilton, Canada), Deepak Sridhar (San Diego), Peng Dai (Markham, Canada) and Juwei Lu (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for temporal action localization of video data are described. A feature representation extracted from video data has a temporal dimension and a spatial dimension. The feature representation is self-aligned in the spatial dimension. Spatial multi-sampling is performed to obtain a plurality of spar...