US Patent Issued to ObjectVideo Labs on May 13 for "Monitoring presence or absence of an object using local region matching" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,989, issued on May 13, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).

"Monitoring presence or absence of an object using local region matching" was invented by Sima Taheri (McLean, Va.), Gang Qian (McLean, Va.) and Allison Beach (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems, including computer-readable media, are described for monitoring presence or absence of an object at a property using local region matching. A system generates images while monitoring an area of the property and, based on the images, detects an object in a region of interest in the area. For each of the images: the system iteratively compu...