ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,817, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"Audio-visual pilot activity recognition system and method" was invented by Hector Palop (Cork, Ireland) and Naresh Yarlapati Ganesh (Cork, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio-visual pilot activity recognition system including one or more image collectors, one or more audio collectors, and a processor configured to collect at least one image signal from the one or more image collectors, collect at least one audio signal from the one of more audio collectors, and determine a pilot activity based on the collected at least one image signal an...