Patent ID: 7358473
Filing Date: 2008-04-15
Classification: B60R,G01S

Abstract:
1. An object detecting system comprising: a light emitting mechanism to emit light toward an object occupying a vehicle seat; a control mechanism to control the light emitting mechanism; a photographing mechanism including an optical lens and a distance measuring image chip, wherein light emitted from the light emitting mechanism and reflected by the object is incident on the distance measuring image chip through the optical lens and is focused into a focusing area of the distance measuring image chip; and a processing mechanism to derive information about the object from the focused image on the distance measuring image chip of the photographing mechanism; wherein the control mechanism changes a light emitting mode of the light emitting mechanism based on information about a quantity of incident light derived by the processing mechanism such that a quantity of incident light on the distance measuring image chip is equalized to respective portions of the focusing area.