ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,493, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).
"Method for obtaining the position of a person in a room, thermal imager and home automation sensor" was invented by Dominique Persegol (Grenoble, France) and Hector Pharam (Grenoble, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining the position of a person in a space of a building via a thermal imager including a wide-angle lens, the method including: acquiring, with the thermal imager, through its wide-angle lens, a deformed thermal image of a scene including the person, the deformed thermal image including a hot zone corr...