Patent ID: 11861867
Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for estimating mass of one or more occupants in a vehicle cabin, said method comprising:
providing a processor configured to:
obtain multiple images of said one or more occupants, wherein the multiple images comprising a sequence of two-dimensional (2D) images and three-dimensional (3D) images of said vehicle cabin captured by an image sensor;
apply a pose detection algorithm on each of the obtained sequences of the 2D images to yield one or more skeleton representations of said one or more occupants;
combine one or more of the 3D images of the sequence of the 3D images with the one or more skeleton representations of said one or more occupants to yield at least one skeleton model for each one of said one or more occupants wherein the at least one skeleton model comprises information relating to a distance of one or more key-points of the at least one skeleton model from a viewpoint;
analyze the at least one skeleton model to extract one or more features of each of said one or more occupants; and
process the one or more extracted features of the at least one skeleton model to estimate said mass of each said one or more occupants.