ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,667, issued on May 12, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Driver monitoring camera" was invented by Kah Soon Ang (Singapore) and Florin Burza (Timisoara, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver monitoring camera comprises an optical sensor configured to take an image of a driver of a vehicle, an inclination sensor configured to determine an inclination of the driver monitoring camera with respect to a vehicle coordinate system and a processor configured to determine a pose of the driver in a driver monitoring camera coordinate system from the image and configured to transform the pos...