US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 3 for "Seating position determination apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,046, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Seating position determination apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Koyo Shibata (Tokyo) and Kazuki Inagaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera is installed in a vehicle in which a plurality of seat rows are arranged, and captures an image of an inside of the vehicle. A face detection unit detects a face region of a passenger from the image captured by the camera. A seating row specification unit specifies a seat row in which the passenger with the face region being detected is seated. A seating position specification unit specifi...