US Patent Issued to Smart Eye on July 21 for "Seat belt detection" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,712, issued on July 21, was assigned to Smart Eye AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Seat belt detection" was invented by Henrik Lind (Gothenburg, Sweden), Torsten Wilhelm (Gothenburg, Sweden), Ara Jafarzadeh (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Joel Severin (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining if an occupant of a vehicle has correctly applied a seat belt by acquiring an image of the occupant, the image including at least a shoulder portion of the occupant, identifying left and right shoulders and a longitudinal extension of a seat belt in the image, determining an intersection between the longitudinal ex...