US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on Feb. 24 for "Driver assistance based on pose detection" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,088, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Driver assistance based on pose detection" was invented by Corey Heath (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Stefan Witwicki (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video of a driver of a vehicle is obtained. Based on subset of frames of the video, a series of body poses are identified. The series of body poses are identified by detecting landmark points associated with respective body parts of the driver. The landmark points correspond to coordinates of locations of pixels that represent at least one or more joints of the respective body parts of th...