Patent ID: 11961232
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC MACHINES CORP.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A non-contact, non-intrusive, autonomous system for monitoring health conditions or parameters of persons in an area, said system comprising:
a plurality of imaging devices including at least two imaging devices sensitive to radiation of distinct wavelength ranges, each with a particular field of view, wherein the fields of view of the at least two imaging devices are substantially co-registered at the area;
a processor operatively connected to the imaging devices, the processor configured to autonomously monitor persons in the area by:
receiving image data of the area acquired by the at least two imaging devices;

identifying, for at least one person at least partially visible within the image data of the area acquired by each of the at least two imaging devices, facial image data corresponding to a face of the person, where the identifying includes extracting from the facial image data regions or elements of the image data that correspond to an area of interest on the face for the at least one person at least partially visible within the image data, where the extracting includes:
identifying image data corresponding to a face of the at least one person from the image data of each of the at least two imaging devices; and
identifying relevant components of the face in the facial image data of each of the at least two imaging devices;

examining the identified facial image data for the at least one person acquired by each of the at least two imaging devices to determine at least one key parameter indicative of health, wherein the at least one key parameter indicative of health is determined from the facial image data of at least one of the relevant components of the face; and
evaluating a need to send an alert in response to the determined at least one key parameter.