ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,933, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Occupant monitoring system" was invented by Kiyotaka Taguchi (Kariya, Japan), Yasuhiko Joho (Kariya, Japan), Akira Kamiya (Kariya, Japan), Hiroyuki Mimura (Kariya, Japan) and Toshinori Mizuno (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant monitoring system includes a camera, an image processor and an exclusion structure. The camera is provided in a cabin and configured to capture an image of a face of an occupant in a vehicle. The image processor is configured to recognize the face of the occupant based on an imaging data captured by the camera. The excl...