Method for monitoring occupancy in a work area
AssigneeVergeSense, Inc.
InventorsDan Ryan, Kelby Green
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Abstract
One variation of a method for monitoring occupancy in a work area includes, at a sensor block: transitioning from an inactive state into an active state when an output of a motion sensor indicates motion in a work area; during a scan cycle in the active state, recording an image through an optical sensor at a time, detecting a set of humans in the image, detecting a second set of human effects in the image, predicting a second set of humans occupying but absent the work area based on the second set of human effects, and estimating a total occupancy in the work area at the time based on the set of humans and the second set of humans; and transmitting the total occupancy to a remote computer system for update of a scheduler for the work area.
Claims18
A method for monitoring occupancy comprising:
- accessing a first image recorded by a sensor block at a first time and depicting a first desk;
- detecting a first set of features, proximal the first desk, in the first image, the first set of features representing personal objects carried by humans in a work environment;
- detecting absence of humans in the first image;
- detecting the first set of features within a threshold distance of the first desk;
- identifying the first desk in an occupied with human absent state;
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- updating a record to indicate the first desk in the occupied with human absent state;
- accessing a second image recorded by the sensor block at the first time and depicting a second desk;
- detecting a second set of features, proximal the second desk, in the second image, the second set of features representing personal objects carried by humans in the work environment;
- detecting an occupancy state of the second desk at the first time based on proximity of the second set of features to the second desk;
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- updating the record to indicate the occupancy state of the second desk at the first time.
A method for monitoring occupancy comprising:
- accessing a first image recorded by a sensor block at a first time and depicting a first desk;
- detecting a first set of features, proximal the first desk, in the first image, the first set of features representing personal objects carried by humans in a work environment;
- detecting absence of humans in the first image;
- detecting the first set of features within a threshold distance of the first desk;
- and
- identifying the first desk in an occupied with human absent state;
- and
- detecting absence of humans in the first image;
- detecting the first set of features within a threshold distance of the first desk;
- detecting an occupancy state of the first desk, comprising identifying the first desk in an occupied with human absent state, at the first time based on proximity of the first set of features to the first desk;
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- updating a record to indicate the occupancy state of the first desk at the first time, the occupancy state of the first desk comprising the occupied with human absent state of the first desk.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.