ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,811, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).
"Methods and apparatus to detect people" was invented by Michael Alan Hicks (Clearwater, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example apparatus disclosed herein includes a grouper to generate a first presence indication based on a threshold number of segments of image data including patterns of light values corresponding to a first human pulse. Disclosed example apparatus also include a face identifier to identify a first location associated with a human face in an environment associated with the image data based on thermal imaging data from a thermal imaging...