ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,692, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Seat belt wearing determination apparatus" was invented by Woong Lae Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced is a seat belt wearing determination apparatus including a camera configured to capture an interior of a vehicle, a controller configured to determine a first bounding box and a second bounding box from an image including a seated occupant captured by the camera and determine whether the seated occupant is wearing a seat belt based on the overlapping degree of the first and second bounding boxes, wherein the firs...