US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Feb. 24 for "Time-of-flight wake on attention" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,312, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Time-of-flight wake on attention" was invented by Ulysse Gaffet (Grenoble, France) and Olivier Lemarchand (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a method includes collecting, by a time-of-flight (ToF) sensor, real time raw data of a scene comprising a user in its field of view; generating, by a first neural network, an estimate of a posture of the user based on a distance calculated to the user; generating, by a second neural network and in response to determining that the estimate of the posture of the user ...