Patent ID: 7369928

Claim:
A headrest positioning system for automatically positioning a headrest of a vehicle seat, said system comprising: a headrest sensor for detecting the position of the headrest, said headrest sensor generating a headrest position signal indicative of the position of the headrest; a seat occupant detecting sub-system for detecting the position of a feature of a seat occupant seated in the vehicle seat, said seat occupant detecting sub-system generating a feature position signal indicative of the position of the feature, said seat occupant detecting sub-system including a driver side mirror detecting sub-system for detecting the position of a driver side mirror to detect the position of the seat occupant's eyes, said seat occupant detecting sub-system further including an imaging sub-system for detecting the position of the seat occupant's head; and a headrest position controller being responsive to the headrest position signal and the feature position signal, said controller generating a desired position of the headrest based on the position of the feature, said headrest position controller comparing the detected position of the headrest to the desired position of the headrest and automatically moving the headrest to the desired position, said headrest position controller moving the headrest to the desired position for the driver side mirror that has been set by either a blind zone side mirror selling method or a blind zone/glare elimination side mirror setting method.