US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 29 for "Occupant detection device, occupant detection system, and occupant detection method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,129, issued on July 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Occupant detection device, occupant detection system, and occupant detection method" was invented by Taro Kumagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an occupant detection device with a reduced processing load.An occupant detection device includes an image obtainer to obtain a captured image from an imaging device including, in an imaging range, a driver present in a driver seat of a vehicle and a passenger present in a passenger seat or a rear seat of the vehicle, an occupant detector to obtain the captured image from the image obtainer, ...