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

Claim 15:
16. The method of claim 14:
further comprising, at the first time, accessing a set of definitions of an occupied state for a desk-type asset comprising:
a first definition of an occupied with human present state for the desk-type asset; and
a second definition of an occupied with human absent state for the desk-type asset;

wherein accessing the first image recorded by the sensor block at the first time comprises accessing the first image recorded by the sensor block at the first time, the sensor block defining the field of view intersecting the space within the facility and encompassing the first work surface comprising a first desk and the second work surface comprising a second desk in the space;
further comprising, at the first time, extracting a first set of features associated with the first desk from the first image, the first set of features representing a set of personal objects, the set of personal objects carried by humans in a work environment and excluding fixed assets defined by an administrator;
wherein detecting absence of humans within the threshold distance of the first work surface in the first image comprises detecting absence of humans within a predefined area of the first desk based on the first set of features;
wherein detecting the first set of personal objects in the first image comprises detecting the first set of personal objects within the predefined area of the first desk based on the first set of features; and
wherein identifying the first work surface in the occupied with human absent state comprises in response to detecting the first set of human effects and absence of humans within the predefined area associated with the first desk from the first image, identifying the first desk in the occupied with human absent state according to the second definition.