US Patent Issued to GENTEX on Nov. 25 for "3D skeleton detection for in-cabin automotive application" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,366, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"3D skeleton detection for in-cabin automotive application" was invented by Bar Mayo (Rehovot, Israel) and Guy Raz (Binyamina, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for a vehicle includes at least one imaging device configured to capture a first image type and a second image type in a sequence. A first illumination source is configured to emit a flood illumination captured by the at least one imaging device in the first image type. A second illumination source is configured to emit an illumination pattern captured by the at least one imaging de...