Patent ID: 11928865
Assignee: VERGESENSE, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for monitoring occupancy comprising:
at a first time, accessing a first image recorded by a sensor block, the sensor block defining a field of view intersecting a space within a facility and encompassing a work surface in the space;
detecting absence of humans within a threshold distance of the work surface in the first image;
detecting a set of personal objects in the first image, the set of personal objects carried by humans in the space and excluding assets affiliated with the space;
in response to detecting absence of humans in the first image and in response to detecting the set of personal objects within the threshold distance of the work surface:
identifying the work surface in an occupied with human absent state; and
updating a scheduler to indicate the occupied with human absent state of the work surface;

accessing a second image recorded by the sensor block at a second time;
detecting a human within the threshold distance of the work surface in the second image; and
in response to detecting the human within the threshold distance of the work surface:
identifying the work surface in an occupied with human present state; and
updating the scheduler to indicate the occupied with human present state of the work surface.