US Patent Issued to VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE on Dec. 2 for "Method for defining the clothes type of an occupant of a vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,821, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE (Creteil, France).

"Method for defining the clothes type of an occupant of a vehicle" was invented by Mahmoud Tamam (Creteil, France), Audrey Quessada (Creteil, France), Nicolas Ringelstein (Creteil, France) and Mahmoud Elkhateeb (Creteil, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for defining the clothes type of an occupant of a vehicle is disclosed. The method includes acquiring a video stream of the cabin of the vehicle, performing skin segmentation from images of the video stream to classify each image pixels as skin pixels, non skin human pixels, and...