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7403635 Device and method for detection of an object or a person in the interior of a motor vehicle  
The invention relates to a device ( 1 ) and method for detection of an object or a person in the interior of a motor vehicle. The device ( 1 ) is operated by means of an analytical unit ( 3 ), such...
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...
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...
EP1564107B1 Vehicle steering wheel  
Abstract not available for EP1564107 Abstract of corresponding document: US2005189159 A steering wheel for a motor vehicle is provided having a hub element, a steering wheel rim, at least one...
7197180 System or method for selecting classifier attribute types  
A system or method (collectively “selection system”) is disclosed for selecting attributes for a classifier in a sensor system. The selection system selects attribute types using statistical...
EP1762445A1 Electronic seat belt tensioning system  
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 belt. After initial...
EP1759941A1 Electronic seat belt tensioning system  
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 belt. After initial...
EP1759940A1 Electronic seat belt tensioning system  
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 belt. After initial...
EP1759939A1 Electronic seat belt tensioning system  
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 belt. After initial...
7181083 System and method for configuring an imaging tool  
An imaging tool, including a lens, an imager, and a housing component, can be configured using a focus subsystem and an alignment subsystem. The focus subsystem can perform a focus heuristic using...
7164117 Vehicular restraint system control system and method using multiple optical imagers  
System and method for obtaining information about occupancy of a compartment in a movable object in which at least first and second optical imagers obtain images of a common area of the compartment...
7116800 Image segmentation system and method  
The present invention relates in general to systems used to process images. In particular, the present invention is an image segmentation system and method used to isolate the segmented image of a...
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...
7055639 Occupant detection system for vehicle  
An occupant detection system determines a seat occupancy condition including occupancy of a vehicle seat and a size of the occupant, that is, an adult or a child. The determined seat occupancy...
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...
6944527 Decision enhancement system for a vehicle safety restraint application  
The disclosure describes systems and methods that pertain to interactions between a vehicle and an occupant within the vehicle. More specifically, various systems and methods for enhancing the...
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...
EP1564107A1 Vehicle steering wheel  
The steering wheel (1) has a hub body (10) provided with one or more spokes (12) for supporting a wheel rim (11), one or more of the steering wheel parts provided with an operating device for...
6925403 Method and system for calibrating a sensor  
A new system and method for calibrating the field-of-view of a sensor that is part of a vehicle occupancy sensing system. Calibration is carried out by generating an image of the vehicle interior...
6925193 Image processing system for dynamic suppression of airbags using multiple model likelihoods to infer three dimensional information  
The present invention relates in general to systems used to determine whether airbag deployment should be disabled or modified due to the proximity of the occupant to the airbag. In particular, 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...
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...
6904347 Human presence detection, identification and tracking using a facial feature image sensing system for airbag deployment  
A vehicle occupant airbag deployment system ( 50 ) that detects, identifies and tracks a person ( 16 ) in the passenger seat ( 18 ) of a vehicle ( 12 ), and provides a signal for no fire, soft fire...
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...
6883631 External air bag occupant protection system  
A plurality of gas generators provide for controllably inflating a plurality of inflatable confinements responsive to a prediction by a predictive collision sensor of both a size of an expected...
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...
6856694 Decision enhancement system for a vehicle safety restraint application  
The disclosure describes systems and methods that pertain to interactions between a vehicle and an occupant within the vehicle. More specifically, various systems and methods for enhancing the...
6853898 Occupant labeling for airbag-related applications  
An invention is disclosed to divide a segmented image of an occupant into an upper torso image and a lower torso image. An occupant labeling heuristic can identify each pixel within the segmented...
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...
6816767 Vehicle collision decision apparatus  
A vehicle collision decision apparatus determines whether or not an occupant-protecting apparatus should be started in a collision by an occupant moving characteristics determining device. Also,...
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...
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...
6736231 Vehicular occupant motion detection system using radar  
System and method for determining occupancy of a vehicle in which a radar system emits radio waves into an interior of the vehicle in which objects might be situated and receives radio waves and a...
6735506 Telematics system  
Vehicular telematics system including an occupant sensing system for determining a property or characteristic of occupancy of the vehicle constituting information about the occupancy of the vehicle...
6712387 Method and apparatus for controlling deployment of a side airbag  
An arrangement and method for controlling deployment of a side airbag from an airbag module to protect an occupant in a seat of a vehicle in a crash. The presence of an occupant and/or position of...
6703845 Occupant sensor  
An oscillatory or pulsed first signal is applied to a seat heating element that is operatively connected to first and second impedances that isolate the first signal from the source and sink of...
6678600 Child seat detection system  
A child seat detection system determines the presence of an infant seat and can distinguish between a forward-facing infant seat and a rearward-facing infant seat. The system determines the weight...
6662093 Image processing system for detecting when an airbag should be deployed  
The invention can determine whether a collision has occurred, whether an airbag should be deployed, and what the desirable strength of an airbag deployment should be based on occupant...
6634669 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...
EP1350697A2 Electronic seat belt tensioning system  
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 belt. After initial...
6577936 Image processing system for estimating the energy transfer of an occupant into an airbag  
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...
6577023 Occupant detection system  
An occupant detection system comprises an electric field sensor in the seat bottom of a vehicle seat for discriminating objects on the seat, and a seat weight sensor for sensing the force upon the...
6563231 Occupant sensor  
An occupant sensor comprises an electric field sensor comprising a plurality of first electrodes mountable within a vehicle seat, wherein the plurality of first electrodes are disposed on a common...
6553296 Vehicular occupant detection arrangements  
An arrangement in a vehicle for determining vehicle occupant position relative to a fixed structure within the vehicle including an array which receives an image of a portion of the passenger...
6533317 Restraining device with dynamic “danger” zone  
An air bag restraint system includes a controller which is responsive to first sensor signals representing the position of an occupant and second sensor signals. The controller defines a danger...
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