ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,143, issued on March 11, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).
"Keyframe selection for computer vision analysis" was invented by Joshua Migdal (Wayland, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Upon a triggering event, frames of a video feed are analyzed for activity or motion. One frame or a subset of the frames are selected as a keyframe/keyframes based on one or measures associated with one or more metrics derived from the frames. The keyframe/keyframes optimally reflects an activity or degree of motion across the frames. The keyframe/keyframes are then provided as input to a computer vision or machine learning application to im...