ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,720, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Device and method for controlling a camera" was invented by Ester Marjan Van Der Heide ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands) and Fei Zuo (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (20) and method for controlling a camera (10) are provided. The device comprises an input unit (21) configured to obtain video data from the camera; an image processing unit (22) configured to determine from the obtained video data if a particular person is present alone in a first area monitored by the camera; a control unit (23) configured to generat...