Patent ID: 11969513
Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  H  B  Y | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
at least one infrared (“IR”) sensor;
at least one ultraviolet (“UV”) emitter having a beam steering module, the UV emitter configured to emit targeted UV light to areas within a vehicle cabin;
at least one data storage configured to store computer program instructions; and
at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one data storage, the IR sensor, and the UV emitter,
the at least one processor configured to execute the computer program instructions to perform:
tracking at least one contaminated area, in the vehicle cabin using IR sensor data from the IR sensor;
determining whether there is a direct line of sight between the UV emitter and the at least one contaminated area;
generating a UV illumination mask by:
activating UV illumination in the UV illumination mask to target the at least one contaminated area when there is the direct line of sight between the UV emitter and the at least one contaminated area; and
deactivating UV illumination in the UV illumination mask to other areas in the vehicle cabin that are not identified as contaminated;

configuring the beam steering module of the UV emitter based on the UV illumination mask; and
activating the UV emitter for UV illumination by using the beam steering configuration to target the at least one contaminated area.