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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2015
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Adrienne Heinrich, Eindhoven, NL;
Yingrong Xie, Eindhoven, NL;
Esther Marjan Van Der Heide, Eindhoven, NL;
Thomas Falck, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A device, system and method automatically detects orientation and/or location of a person. To increase the robustness and accuracy, the device includes an image data interface () for obtaining image data of a person (), which image data includes a sequence of image frames over time, a motion detector () for detecting motion within said image data, a motion intensity detector () for identifying motion hotspots representing image areas showing frequently occurring motion, and a person detector () for detecting the orientation and/or location of at least part of the person () based on the identified motion hotspots.