Patent ID: 11961388
Assignee: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEV. CO., LTD.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle alarm system configured to avoid false alarms while maintaining the vehicle alarm system armed, the vehicle alarm system comprises:
a camera positioned in the vehicle to image at least a living object in the vehicle;
a tilt sensor that detects an amount of tilt of the vehicle; and
a processing circuitry operatively connected to the camera and configured to detect and characterize the living object in images generated by the camera to identify the living object as belonging to one of a first type of living objects or a second type of living objects, and, wherein the first type of the living object is a human child or an animal and the second type of the living object is a human adult to cause the vehicle alarm system to:
in response to characterizing the living object as belonging to the first type of living objects, reduce or unarm at least a first alarm function of the vehicle alarm system that generates an alarm in accordance with the tilt detector detecting tilt or movement of the vehicle, while at least a second alarm function of the vehicle alarm system that generates an alarm in accordance with detecting intrusion into the vehicle is armed.