ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,852, issued on June 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Face detection device" was invented by Kazuki Kunihiro (Tokyo) and Taro Kumagai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face detection device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire, from an imaging device mounted on a vehicle and imaging an at least one occupant inside the vehicle, a captured image in which the at least one occupant is imaged; set a search area in which a face of the at least one occupant is searched in the acquired captured image; search the search area and detect the face of the at least one occupant; determine whether or not t...