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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2021
Applicant:
Fotonation Limited, Galway, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04N 5/33 (2023.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); H04N 23/73 (2023.01); H04N 23/74 (2023.01); H04N 23/76 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/667 (2023.01); G06V 20/593 (2022.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01); H04N 23/73 (2023.01); H04N 23/74 (2023.01); H04N 23/76 (2023.01);
Abstract
A vehicle occupant monitoring system, OMS, comprises an image acquisition device with a rolling shutter image sensor comprising an array of sub-pixels which are respectively selectively sensitive to: red and infra-red; blue and infra-red; and green and infra-red light. The device is configured to selectively operate in either: a colour mode where a multi-plane image frame corresponding to the full image sensor is provided, each plane derived from red, green or blue sensitive sub-pixels respectively; or a monochrome mode, where sensor information from sub-pixels is aggregated to provide a single image plane.