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7407029 Weight measuring systems and methods for vehicles  
Weight sensor for determining the weight of an occupant of a seat including a bladder arranged in a seat portion of the seat and including material or structure in an interior thereof which...
7401807 Airbag deployment control based on seat parameters  
Airbag control arrangement for a vehicle including an airbag system having at least one airbag, a seat for occupancy by an occupant to be protected by the airbag(s), a seat position sensor system...
7387183 Weight measuring systems and methods for vehicles  
Method for determining the position of the occupant in a seat having a bottom portion on which the occupant sits and a back portion situated at an angle to the bottom portion including arranging a...
7386372 Apparatus and method for determining presence of objects in a vehicle  
Vehicle including a first substructure and a second substructure arranged such that an interior space is defined by or between the first and second substructures, and an arrangement for determining...
7379559 Method and apparatus for determining an occupant's head location in an actuatable occupant restraining system  
An apparatus ( 20 ) for determining a location of a person's head ( 90 ) includes stereo vision system ( 60 ) for imaging an area of interest such as the interior of a vehicle ( 26 ). The vision...
7370883 Three dimensional occupant position sensor  
A roof-mounted sensor includes two rows of intersecting electrodes that are placed across an area of the vehicle's roof and a method to determine the position and motion of an occupant. This is...
7364186 Vehicle air bag minimum distance apparatus, method and system  
A vehicle safety device includes a seat mounted within a passenger compartment of the vehicle, in which the seat is movably connected to a vehicle frame by a seat position adjusting mechanism that...
7299119 Seat belt system having occupant sensing device  
A seat belt system for a vehicle includes a collision predicting device, an occupant sensing device, a seat belt, a seat belt drive device and a seat belt control device. The collision predicting...
EP1350697B1 Electronic seat belt tensioning system  
Abstract of EP1350697 A method and system (10) for controlling the tensioning of a vehicle seat belt utilizes a control processor (20) and a motor (12) to provide initial tensioning of the seat...
7284769 Method and apparatus for sensing a vehicle crash  
Method and apparatus for sensing a crash of a vehicle in which acceleration and angular motion of the vehicle are measured and analyzed by a processor to determine whether a crash is occurring. A...
7243945 Weight measuring systems and methods for vehicles  
Weight sensor for determining the weight of an occupant of a seat including a bladder arranged in a seat portion of the seat and including material or structure in an interior thereof which...
EP1772321A2 Method of identifying and tracking objects  
A method of identifying objects of interest within a scene from an image thereof, the method comprising the steps of; taking a current image of the scene I now using an imager; calculating a...
7198291 Passenger protection apparatus  
A passenger protection apparatus of a simple construction is capable of stably performing air bag control and preventing erroneous control due to objects such as passenger's hands, newspapers,...
7151452 Vehicle occupant sensing system  
A vehicle occupancy sensing system provides a mechanism for determining whether a child is present in a vehicle. The sensing system may determine that an occupied front or rear facing child seat is...
7147246 Method for airbag inflation control  
Method for controlling deployment of an airbag into a passenger compartment of a vehicle including detecting a position of an occupant whose forward-facing surface will be the surface which...
7134687 Rear view mirror monitor  
A vehicle including a system for obtaining information about occupants of the vehicle including a rear-view mirror including a mirror part and a support for mounting the mirror part to the vehicle...
7098674 Occupant sensor  
An oscillatory or pulsed first signal is operatively coupled to a first electrode placed between a conductive heating element and a seating region of a seat containing the heating element. A second...
7097202 Vehicle air bag minimum distance apparatus, method and system  
A vehicle safety device includes a seat mounted within a passenger compartment of the vehicle, in which the seat is movably connected to a vehicle frame by a seat position adjusting mechanism that...
7022970 Device and method for detecting an object or a person in the passenger compartment of a vehicle  
The invention relates to a device and a method for detecting an object or a person is received. The receiving power is permanently detected. The laser light pulse is switched off when a threshold...
7003384 Method and apparatus for self-diagnostics of a vision system  
A method and apparatus ( 20 ) for recognizing and determining a location of an object ( 40 ) in an area of interest ( 31 ) comprises an imaging device ( 61 ) for obtaining an image of the area of...
6958451 Apparatus and method for measuring weight of an occupying item of a seat  
Arrangement and method for determining weight of an occupying item in a seat including one or more weight sensors arranged to obtain a measurement of the force applied to the seat, a forcing...
6950022 Method and arrangement for obtaining and conveying information about occupancy of a vehicle  
Method and arrangement for obtaining and conveying information about occupancy of a passenger compartment of a vehicle including at least one sensor for obtaining data from the passenger...
6942248 Occupant restraint device control system and method  
Control system for controlling an occupant restraint device effective for protection of an occupant of the seat including a receiving device arranged in the vehicle for obtaining information about...
EP1569160A2 Method and apparatus for controlling classification and classification switching in a vision system  
A system for classifying image data includes a vision system (58) for continuously imaging an area (42) of interest and providing an image signals. A classifier (84) determines an image class...
EP1569159A2 Method and apparatus for arbitrating outputs from multiple pattern recognition classifiers  
A system (400) for classifying an input image into one of a plurality of output classes includes a plurality of pattern recognition classifiers (420, 422, 424). Each of the plurality of pattern...
EP1562135A2 Process and apparatus for classifying image data using grid models  
A system (600) for classifying an input image into one of a plurality of output classes includes a plurality of pattern recognition classifiers (620, 622, 624). Each pattern recognition classifier...
6918611 System and method for controlling an inflatable cushion  
An air bag pressure control system for use in a vehicle is provided. The system comprises a housing, an inflatable cushion, and a dual stage inflator. The inflator generates a quantity of inflation...
6918459 Method and apparatus for deploying airbags  
Apparatus and method for deploying airbags in a vehicle in which a first inflatable airbag protects an occupant in a seating location during a crash and a second inflatable airbag moves the...
6916040 Vehicle air bag minimum distance enforcement apparatus, method and system  
A vehicle safety device includes a seat mounted within a passenger compartment of the vehicle, in which the seat is movably connected to a vehicle frame by a seat position adjusting mechanism that...
6914526 Intrusion detection system using linear imaging  
A vehicle intrusion detection system ( 10 ) for detecting an intrusion condition of a vehicle ( 12 ) having an occupant compartment ( 14 ) partially defined by an outer structure ( 30 ) of the...
6913284 Vehicle airbag system  
A vehicle airbag system has an airbag which can be deployed in two stages. In a typical accident situation, a first chamber containing a larger quantity of propellant charge is deployed, and a...
6910711 Method for controlling deployment of an occupant protection device  
Method for controlling a vehicular component based on the position and velocity of an occupant in which the current position and velocity of the occupant are determined, an expected position of the...
6905135 Inflator system  
Inflator module for inflating an airbag with gas including an elongate housing, an elongate block of propellant arranged in the housing and generating gas when burning and preferably, igniter...
6891382 Three-dimensional characterization using a one-dimensional electrode array  
Three-dimensional characterization wherein an object interacts capacitively with a resistive medium and the object's orientation, mass distribution and/or distance from the medium is characterized...
6870622 Method and device for monitoring electric components in a pick-and-place device for substrates  
A method and device are for monitoring electric components in a pick-and-place device for substrates. The underside of a pick-up is monitored by an optical scanner during the pick-up phase and...
6869100 Method and apparatus for controlling an airbag  
Method and system for controlling deployment of an airbag in which the position of an occupant to be protected by deployment of the airbag is determined, the probability that a crash requiring...
6856873 Vehicular monitoring systems using image processing  
Vehicular monitoring arrangement for monitoring an environment of the vehicle including at least one active pixel camera for obtaining images of the environment of the vehicle and a processor...
6851655 Seat rail system with position sensor  
A seat position sensor rail device is disclosed, comprising an upper rail body to partially support a seat, a lower rail body which slidably engages the upper rail body, a position sensor device...
6833516 Apparatus and method for controlling a vehicular component  
Arrangement and method for controlling a component in a vehicle in which at least one morphological characteristic of an occupant is measured and a current position of at least a part of a seat on...
6828559 Sensor having a plurality of active areas  
A sensor including at least two active areas for receiving light energy and a resistive layer disposed on each of the at least two active areas for providing a pair of current signals corresponding...
EP1482448A2 Method and apparatus for determining an occupant's head location in an actuatable occupant restraining system  
An apparatus (20) for determining a location of a person's head (90) includes stereo vision system (60) for imaging an area of interest such as the interior of a vehicle (26). The vision system...
6825765 Occupant detection system  
An occupant detection system comprises a weight sensor and an electric field sensor, each operatively coupled to a seat. The electric field sensor generates an electric field from at least one...
6820897 Vehicle object detection system and method  
System for obtaining information about an object in the vehicle including one or more resonators or reflectors arranged in association with the object, each resonator emitting an energy signal upon...
6820895 Vehicle air bag minimum distance enforcement apparatus, method and system  
A vehicle air-bag apparatus for use with a first air-bag and a first seat mounted within a passenger compartment of a vehicle, the apparatus including a first seat position adjusting mechanism to...
6814372 Method for apparatus for venting an inflatable restraint assembly  
An apparatus 10 for venting an inflatable restraint assembly 12 . The apparatus 10 includes a conventional pyrotechnic cylinder 30 which is communicatively coupled to a controller 28 , a...
6805404 Vehicular seats including occupant protection apparatus  
Headrest for a seat of a vehicle including a frame attachable to the seat and a fluid-containing bag attached to the frame. The bag allows movement of the fluid within the bag to thereby alter its...
6793242 Method and arrangement for obtaining and conveying information about occupancy of a vehicle  
Method and arrangement for obtaining and conveying information about occupancy of a passenger compartment of a vehicle including a health state determining mechanism for determining the occupant's...
6784379 Arrangement for obtaining information about an occupying item of a seat  
Arrangement for obtaining information about an occupying item of a seat having a seat portion and a back portion. The arrangement including a distance-determining sensor arranged in the back...
6781676 Structured lighting detection of vehicle occupant type and position  
An apparatus ( 12 ) for determining the location of a vehicle occupant ( 20 ) in a vehicle interior includes a light source ( 40 ) for projecting at least one structured light beam ( 42 ) onto an...
6772057 Vehicular monitoring systems using image processing  
Vehicular monitoring arrangement for monitoring an environment of the vehicle including at least one active pixel camera for obtaining images of the environment of the vehicle and a processor...
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