US Patent Issued to HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on Aug. 11 for "Method and system for heart rate extraction from RGB images" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,317, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH (Karlsbad-Ittersbach, Germany).

"Method and system for heart rate extraction from RGB images" was invented by Andrey Viktorovich Filimonov (Kamenki, Russia), Ivan Sergeevich Shishalov (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia), Roman Aleksandrovich Ershov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) and Andrey Sergeevich Shilov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for determining one or more heart beat features using remote photoplethysmography (rPPG). The method, comprising capturing a series of images of a user in a car by a camera in the car, wherein e...