ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,683, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Distance Technologies Oy (Helsinki).
"Hybrid face tracking for vehicles" was invented by Thomas Carlsson (Vantaa, Finland) and Mikko Strandborg (Hangonkyla, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one monocular camera is installed in a vehicle in addition to in-cabin camera(s). Images captured by the in-cabin camera(s) at a first frame rate are processed to determine first positions of facial landmark features of a user and first poses of the user's face. Images captured by the at least one monocular camera at a second frame rate, higher than the first frame rate, are processed to ident...