US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 16 for "Multimodal contactless vital sign monitoring" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,696, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Multimodal contactless vital sign monitoring" was invented by Korosh Vatanparvar (Cupertino, Calif.), Wenchuan Wei (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Li Zhu (Saratoga, Calif.), Migyeong Gwak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jilong Kuang (San Jose, Calif.) and Jun Gao (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimodal, contactless vital sign monitoring system is configured to perform the following operations. Images are received from a video capture device. An image of a subject is identified within the images. The image of the subject is segmente...