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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2011
Yeqing Zhang, Penfield, NY (US);
Beilei Xu, Penfield, NY (US);
Lalit K. Mestha, Fairport, NY (US);
Graham Pennington, Webster, NY (US);
Yeqing Zhang, Penfield, NY (US);
Beilei Xu, Penfield, NY (US);
Lalit K. Mestha, Fairport, NY (US);
Graham Pennington, Webster, NY (US);
XEROX CORPORATION, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
An embodiment generally relates to systems and methods for determining cell phone usage automatically by individuals operating vehicles. A processing module can process multi-spectral images or videos of individuals and detect different regions in the image such as face regions, hand regions, and cell phone regions. Further, the processing module can analyze the regions based on locations and numbers of skin pixels and cell phone pixels to determine if the individual is holding his or her cell phone near his or her face. Based on the analysis, it can be determined whether the individual is operating the cell phone. Further, the analysis can yield a confidence level associated with the cell phone usage.