Patent ID: 8306265
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: A61B,G06K,G08B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method implemented at least in part by a data processing system, the method for detecting objects in an environment, and the method comprising: receiving image data representing a captured image of the environment or a portion thereof; receiving electric-field data from or derived from a bio-electric field sensing system including non-contact bio-electric field sensors, the electric-field data including bio-electric-field data sensed from bio-electric fields present in the environment or a portion thereof, and the electric-field data and the image data representing information gathered from an overlapping portion of the environment; detecting a candidate object in the overlapping portion of the environment and classifying the candidate object as animate or inanimate, based at least upon an analysis of the image data and the electric-field data, wherein the analysis of the electric-field data includes an evaluation of whether the electric-field data includes at least a bio-electric field; and storing information pertaining to results of the classifying in a processor-accessible memory system.