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

Claim 18:
19. 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 personal object in the first image, the personal object carried by humans in the space and excluding assets affiliated with the space; and
in response to detecting absence of humans in the first image and in response to detecting the personal object 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; and

at a second time:
accessing a second image recorded by the sensor block;
detecting the personal object within the threshold distance of the work surface in the second image;
detecting absence of humans within the threshold distance of the work surface in the second image;
calculating an elapsed time between the first time and the second time; and
in response to the elapsed time exceeding an abandonment time period, identifying the work surface as abandoned; and
updating the scheduler to highlight the work surface as abandoned.