Patent Document ID: 10013620
Application ID: 14994310
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A vehicle in-cabin imaging device for compressing image data that is representative of at least one skeletal diagram of at least one occupant within an associated vehicle, the vehicle in-cabin imaging device comprising: a processor and a memory, wherein image data is stored on the memory, wherein the image data is representative of a series of time-stamped digital images; a vehicle interior device data module stored on the memory that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to receive at least one of: location data or orientation data from at least one vehicle in-cabin imaging device sensor, wherein the location data is indicative of a location of the vehicle in-cabin imaging device relative to the vehicle occupant within the series of time-stamped digital images and the orientation data is indicative of an orientation of the vehicle in-cabin imaging device relative to the vehicle occupant within the series of time-stamped digital images, and wherein the processor determines at least one of: a location of the vehicle in-cabin imaging device based on the location data irrespective of a current location of the vehicle in-cabin imaging device within the vehicle interior or an orientation of the vehicle in-cabin imaging device based on the orientation data irrespective of a current orientation of the vehicle in-cabin imaging device within the vehicle interior; an image comparison module stored on the memory that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to compare at least two sequential images, of the series of time-stamped digital images, to determine if a threshold change has occurred from a first image to a next image; and an image data compression module stored on the memory that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to compress the image data, when the processor determines that the threshold change has not occurred from the first image to the next image, by deleting either first image data associated with the first image, or next image data associated with the next image, from the image data.