Patent ID: 11889232
Assignee: VERGESENSE, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A method for monitoring occupancy in a work area comprising:
at a first time:
accessing a first image recorded by a sensor block facing the work area;
detecting a work surface present in the work area in the first image;
detecting a first quantity of humans within a distance threshold of the work surface in the first image; and
in response to the quantity of humans exceeding a human quantity threshold, updating an occupancy status of the work surface to indicate the work surface as occupied with humans present; and

at a second time:
accessing a second image recorded by the sensor block;
detecting the work surface present in the work area in the second image;
detecting a second quantity of humans within the distance threshold of the work surface in the second image;
detecting a first cluster of objects within the distance threshold of the work surface in the second image; and
in response to the second quantity of humans falling below the human quantity threshold and in response to detecting the first cluster of objects within the distance threshold of the work surface, updating the occupancy status of the work surface to indicate the work surface as occupied with humans absent.