US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Nov. 3 for "Pilot posture recognition system and method" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,456, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Pilot posture recognition system and method" was invented by Naresh Yarlapati Ganesh (Cork, Ireland) and Stefano Riverso (Cork City, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more imaging devices configured to collect image data of a cockpit area of an aircraft. The system includes a pilot detection module configured to determine a presence of one or more pilots in the cockpit area based on the image data The system includes a pilot posture module configured to determine three-dimensional posture of the one or more pilots based on...