ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,499, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to VIVOTEK INC. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Image identification method and image surveillance apparatus" was invented by Cheng-Chieh Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Shun-Hsun Yu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Fu-Min Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image identification method is applied to an image surveillance apparatus and includes utilizing an object detecting function to generate a first bounding box and a second bounding box within a surveillance image, utilizing a foreground detecting function to generate a plurality of markers within the surveillance image, defining some of the pl...