US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric Industries on June 17 for "Method for counting people and determining their position in a room" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,119, issued on June 17, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Method for counting people and determining their position in a room" was invented by Pierre Veuillet (Voiron, France), Dominique Persegol (Grenoble, France) and Hector Pharam (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for counting and for determining the position of people in a room, the method including: activating a thermal imager; the thermal imager capturing a raw thermal image of a scene included in the room; deactivating the thermal imager; after deactivating the thermal imager, acquiring a calibrated thermal ima...