Patent ID: 6397136
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: B60R,G01S,G06K

Abstract:
A system for determining the occupancy state of a seat in a vehicle in combination with the vehicle, 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 pattern recognition algorithm 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 trained pattern recognition algorithm 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 said transducers.