- Patent Title: Detecting presence and estimating thermal comfort of one or more human occupants in a built space in real-time using one or more thermographic cameras and one or more RGB-D sensors
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Application No.: US17422142Application Date: 2020-01-09
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Publication No.: US12000609B2Publication Date: 2024-06-04
- Inventor: Da Li , Carol C. Menassa , Vineet Kamat
- Applicant: The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Applicant Address: US MI Ann Arbor
- Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Current Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Ann Arbor
- Agency: Reising Ethington P.C.
- International Application: PCT/US2020/012882 2020.01.09
- International Announcement: WO2020/146596A 2020.07.16
- Date entered country: 2021-07-09
- Main IPC: F24F11/63
- IPC: F24F11/63 ; B60H1/00 ; F24F120/10 ; G01J5/00 ; G06T7/33 ; G06V40/10 ; H04N23/90

Abstract:
A method of making a thermal comfort estimation of one or more human occupants in a built space in real-time is presented. The method employs one or more thermographic cameras and one or more red, green, and blue depth (RGB-D) sensors. The method has several steps. In an example, the method involves capturing thermal images of the human occupant(s) via the thermographic camera(s) and capturing RGB-D images of the human occupant(s) via the RGB-D camera(s). The method further involves extracting facial skin temperatures of the human occupant(s) using the captured thermal images and using the captured RGB-D images. And the method involves estimating the thermal comfort of the human occupant(s) using the extracted facial skin temperatures.
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