Patent ID: 11923092
Assignee: ALTUM VIEW SYSTEMS INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method of detecting personal fall while preserving the privacy of a detected person, comprising:
receiving a sequence of video images comprising a person being monitored;
processing the sequence of video images by, for each video image in the sequence of video images:
detecting the person in the video image; and
extracting a skeletal figure of the detected person by identifying a set of human keypoints from the detected person;

processing the sequence of skeletal figures corresponding to the sequence of video images by labeling each skeletal figure in the sequence of skeletal figures with an action among a set of predetermined actions; and
generating a fall/non-fall decision for the detected person based on the set of action labels corresponding to the sequence of video images.