ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,471, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"System for recognizing gestures of vehicle passenger" was invented by Young Rok Kim (Suwon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger gesture recognition system for gesture recognition of a passenger of a vehicle is carried out using a gesture of the passenger limited to an area around a seat belt. The system includes a controller having target area detection unit that detects a detection target area based on an image captured by an image sensor in an area around webbing of the seat belt fastened to a passeng...