ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,977, issued on April 21.

"Vehicle device setting method" was invented by Liang-Chi Chiu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Yu-Han Chen (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Ming-Tsan Kao (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle device setting method including: capturing, by an image sensing unit, a first image frame; recognizing a user ID according to the first image frame; showing ID information of the recognized user ID on a screen or by a speaker; capturing a second image frame; generating a confirm signal when a first user expression is recognized by calculating an expression feature in the second image frame and compar...