Patent ID: 11935248
Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. A system for detecting occupancy state in a vehicle having an interior passenger compartment, the system comprising:
a monitoring system comprising at least one sensing device configured to capture images of the vehicle interior passenger compartment; and
at least one processor, which is in communication with said monitoring system, wherein said at least one processor is configured to:
analyze said captured images of said interior passenger compartment to yield at least one probability of a current occupancy state of said vehicle;
analyze additional data of said interior passenger compartment to yield predicted probabilities of said occupancy state of said vehicle, wherein each probability of said predicted probabilities relate to the probability of changing said current occupancy state to a different occupancy state;
combine said at least one probability of the current occupancy state with said predicted probabilities of said occupancy state to yield an updated probability of an updated occupancy state of said vehicle;
determine said current occupancy state based on said updated probability of an updated occupancy state of said vehicle, wherein the current occupancy state includes determination of a number of passengers in the vehicle; and
generate an output to control one or more devices or applications based on the determined occupancy state.