Image-Based Vehicle Cabin Sensing and Vehicle Equipment Operation

Abstract: a method of facilitating vehicle operation includes detecting, from one or more images of at least part of a vehicle cabin, one or more seat parts of at least one seat in the vehicle cabin and, for each detected seat part, a seat part attribute. the method includes estimating one or more seat parameters of the at least one seat based on the detected one or more seat part attributes. the one or more seat parameters are indicative of a spatial configuration of the seat in the vehicle cabin.

Inventor(s): Timo Rehfeld, Patrick Weyers, Xuebing Zhang

CPC Classification: B60R21/01554 (including means for detecting the presence or position of passengers, passenger seats or child seats {, and the related safety parameters therefor, e.g. speed or timing of airbag inflation in relation to occupant position or seat belt use})

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