US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Vehicle passenger intent determination for seatbelts and doors" (Polish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,966, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Vehicle passenger intent determination for seatbelts and doors" was invented by Mariusz Rychlik (Wegrzce Wielkie, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perception-based monitoring method for determining a passenger's intention to unbuckle a seatbelt and/or to open a door, including: receiving input data including an image of an interior of the vehicle captured by a camera mounted in the vehicle; assigning based on the image, a set of predefined body keypoint positions (BKP) associated with a detected passenger; computing a manipulation score...