US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on March 31 for "Occupant monitoring device, occupant monitoring method, and medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,998, issued on March 31, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Occupant monitoring device, occupant monitoring method, and medium" was invented by Mizuki Kawase (Tokyo) and Taro Kumagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant monitoring device includes processing circuitry configured to: acquire a captured image in which an inside of a vehicle is captured by an imaging device provided in a movable component in the vehicle; perform sensing that is at least one of state determination of an occupant or personal authentication of the occupant by image processing of the captured image; estimate whether or not ther...