ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,258, issued on March 3, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Sensor fusion scheme for occupant detection" was invented by Harry Broers ('S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands) and Jan Ekkel (Oss, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an occupant or presence detection system and method where movement detection of an infrared (IR) sensor device and presence detection of an image sensor device are combined. Information derived from an IR movement detection signal is combined with object locations extracted by the image sensor device to distinguish human beings from static objects and impro...