Patent ID: 6445988
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: B60R,G01S,G06K

Abstract:
A vehicle including a system for determining the occupancy state of a seat in the vehicle occupied by an occupying item, the system comprising:a plurality of transducers arranged in the vehicle, each of said transducers providing data relating to the occupancy state of the seat; and processor means coupled to said transducers for receiving the data from said transducers and processing the data to obtain an output indicative of the current occupancy state of the seat, said processor means comprising a trained combination neural network created from a plurality of data sets, each of said data sets representing a different occupancy state of the seat and being formed from data from said transducers while the seat is in that occupancy state, said combination neural network producing the output indicative of the current occupancy state of the seat upon inputting a data set representing the current occupancy state of the seat and being formed from data from at least some of said transducers.