ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,837, issued on May 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Region of interest coding for VCM" was invented by Wen Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhong Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for encoding video for machine vision and human/machine hybrid vision, including receiving image data. The technique may also include detecting a plurality of bounding boxes associated with a plurality of objects of interest in a frame of the image data and detecting a frame-level bounding box for the frame based on coordinates of the plurality of bounding boxes. Then, ...