US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Oct. 6 for "Detection system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,571, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detection system" was invented by Kentaro Otomo (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system includes a light source section that includes a plurality of light emitting devices, each of the plurality of light emitting devices emitting near-infrared light toward a different portion of a face of an occupant of a vehicle, an imaging section that captures a face image with reflected light of the near-infrared light emitted to the face of the occupant, and a control unit that extracts feature points and a face image area of the face of the occupant from the...