Patent ID: 11893827
Assignee: SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method of detecting mask usage, comprising:
monitoring video frames of one or more video feeds;
detecting a person in at least one video frame of the video frames, the at least one video frame corresponding to a first area of one or more areas;
detecting one or more detected facial features within the at least one video frame via a facial feature detection algorithm;
determining that the one or more detected facial features of the person comprise one or more particular facial features;
determining an occupancy rate of an enforcement area;
determining, in response to the occupancy rate exceeding an occupancy rate threshold, that the person is in violation of a mask wearing rule when the one or more detected facial features comprise the one or more particular facial features; and
generating an alert in response to determining that the person is in violation of the mask wearing rule.