US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Dec. 23 for "Camera-based vital sign detection" (Dutch, German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,090, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Camera-based vital sign detection" was invented by Steffen Weiss (Hamburg, Germany), Wenjin Wang (Shanghai), Albert Garcia Tormo (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jan Hendrik Wuelbern (Hamburg, Germany) and Albertus Cornelis Den Brinker (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vital sign detection system comprises a camera (10) configured to acquire image frames from an examination zone (42). A signal processor (11) derives vital sign information from the acquired image frames. An illumination controller (12) controls illumination of t...