ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,293, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).
"Method for determining the posture of a driver" was invented by Sergey Abrashov (Toulouse, France), Martin Petrov (Toulouse, France) and Zachary Lebon (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the posture of a driver of a vehicle. The vehicle includes a camera capable of generating a sequence of images of the position of the driver of the vehicle and an electronic control unit including a memory zone, in which a plurality of image processing masks is recorded, with each mask being associated with a pr...