ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,298, issued on May 27, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).

"Action recognition method" was invented by Jianyu Yang (Jiangsu, China) and Yao Huang (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an action recognition method, including: segmenting an action video sample, and calculating a dynamic image of each video segment; inputting the dynamic image and a static image of each video segment into a feature extractor; extracting a motion feature vector of the dynamic image; constructing a feature center group to acquire a histogram expression; inputting the histogram expressions into a his...