ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,987, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Multiscale object detection device and method" was invented by Han Jun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seon Yeong Heo (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Kwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a multi-scale object detection device. The device includes an image frame acquisition unit for acquiring a plurality of consecutive image frames, a critical region extractor for extracting at least one second critical region from a current image frame based on at least one first critical region extracted fr...