ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,459, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH (Karlsbad, Germany).
"Imaging system" was invented by Sameel Kassim Ismail (Garching, Germany), Peter Brandt (Pfinztal, Germany) and Ramazan Ferhat Olgun (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system for a driver monitoring system, comprising: a mirror element; a camera comprising an imaging sensor, the camera being provided at a back side of the mirror element; and a control unit; wherein the control unit is configured to switch the mirror element from a reflective mode to a transmissive mode when the camera starts to scan a row of pixels of t...