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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 23, 2019
Applicant:
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kenichi Katsumata, Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
YAZAKI CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00838 (2013.01); G06K 9/00288 (2013.01); G06K 9/00369 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle occupant count monitoring system includes: an imaging unit that captures a depth image including a distance to an occupant in a cabin of a vehicle; a facial recognizing unit that recognizes a face of the occupant from the depth image captured by the imaging unit; an upper half body recognizing unit that recognizes an upper half body of the occupant from the depth image captured by the imaging unit; and a counting unit that counts the number of occupants by combining a recognition result of the face using the facial recognizing unit and a recognition result of the upper half body using the upper half body recognizing unit.