ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,683, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).
"Image/video analysis with activity signatures" was invented by Joshua Migdal (Wayland, Mass.) and Vikram Srinivasan (North Billerica, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video frames from a video are compressed into a single image or a single data structure that represents a unique visual flowprint or visual signature for a given activity being modeled from the video frames. The flowprint comprises a computed summary of the original pixel values associated with the video frames within the single image and the flowprint is specific to movements occurring within the v...