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

Claim 5:
6. A method of controlling a vehicle alarm system for avoiding false alarms while maintaining the vehicle alarm system armed, the method comprising:
detecting a living object inside of a vehicle from images generated by a camera in the vehicle;
characterizing the living object to identify the living object as belonging to one of a first type of living objects or a second type of living objects; wherein the first type of living objects is a human child or an animal and the second type of the living objects is a human adult and
in response to characterizing the living object as belonging to the first type of living objects, reducing or unarming at least a first alarm function of the vehicle alarm system that generates an alarm in accordance with 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.