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https://drivepatents.com/patents/973680 · 18 Jun 2014
The present invention relates to a vehicle occupant detection device (14, 102) for capturing as an image the behavior of a vehicle occupant (12), who is seated on a seat (34) of a vehicle, by image capture means (26a, 26b) and detecting the position of a s...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/977509 · 12 Mar 2014
Provided is an occupant sensing device which accurately detects the state of an occupant regardless of the influence of extraneous noise, outside light, and the like and the influence of a defect in detected data when lighting of auxiliary light is delayed...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1066418 · 14 Jun 2006
A safety system for a vehicle is provided, which comprises signalling means associated with a seat of the vehicle for emitting an optically detectable signal carrying information related to the seat and detecting means for remotely detecting the optically ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1067596 · 10 May 2006
A stream of images including an area occupied by at least one object are processed to extract wavelet coefficients, and the extracted coefficients are represented as wavelet signatures that are less susceptible to misclassification due to noise and extrane...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1067956 · 26 Apr 2006
A sensing system for an automotive vehicle comprises at least one imager element and at least one illuminating device to be arranged within an automotive vehicle for sensing the presence of an object in a sensing area associated to said vehicle. According ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1075927 · 13 Jul 2005
The present invention provides an object proximity sensor system and method to determine the distance between a vehicle occupant, and the system. Once determined, the distance is used in determining whether to enable or disable an air bag (115) in the vehi...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1079123 · 23 Mar 2005
A method and apparatus (40) for testing an occupant position sensing system (12) of a vehicle (10) includes a motor (42) having a stationary portion (44) and a movable portion (46). A test object (90) is fixed relative to the movable portion (46) of the mo...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1088101 · 14 Apr 2004
A segmented image (42) of an occupant in a vehicle is input to a k-metric module (60) which generates upper and lower torso metrics with occupant classification. An iterative parameter estimator (66) generates upper and lower torso parameters from the metr...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1093206 · 17 Sep 2003
Apparatus for and methods of obtaining positional information about one or more objects in a detection field are disclosed. An array including a transmitting element and a plurality of receiving elements is provided. In one aspect a truncated cross-correla...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/1096352 · 7 May 2003
The present invention relates in general to systems used to determine whether an airbag should be deployed at full or only partial strength. In particular, the present invention is an image processing system that utilizes real-time streaming video-images f...