Patent ID: 11890933
Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 12:
13. A system comprising a vehicle having:
a cabin including a plurality of rows of seats;
a light bar positioned in a door panel or as a heads-up display (HUD) and configured to illuminate light at each seat position in all the rows of seats;
at least one occupancy monitoring sensor, including a radar sensor, configured to generate occupant data for the rows of seats; and
a controller circuit comprising:
means for receiving the occupant data from the occupancy monitoring sensor;
means for determining, based on the occupant data, a respective occupancy status at each individual seat in the rows of seats;
means for determining whether the occupant data relates to a person or an inanimate object; and
means for controlling, based on the occupant data relating to a person, the light bar to illuminate the light to be indicative of the respective occupancy status determined at each individual seat in the rows of seats.