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Publication Number
US-12449953-B2
Publication Date
2025-10-21
Expiration Date
Abstract
A monitoring system for a vehicle communicates with a user interface and includes a vision system that has a sensor configured to capture a presence of at least one vehicle occupant. A control system includes a processor configured to determine that the at least one vehicle occupant is attempting to interface with a user menu and determine a seating location of a first vehicle occupant attempting to interface with the user interface. The processor is further configured to categorize the first vehicle occupant attempting to interface with the user interface by the seating location and transmit an instruction to generate the user menu on the user interface specific to the categorization.
Core Innovation
A monitoring system for a vehicle includes a vision system having a sensor configured to capture a presence of a first vehicle occupant and a second vehicle occupant. A processor periodically receives rules and regulation data from an external database based, at least in part, on GPS coordinates of the vehicle, determines that the first vehicle occupant and the second vehicle occupant are both attempting to interface with a user interface simultaneously, and determines first and second seating locations by the captured presence.
The processor categorizes the first vehicle occupant and the second vehicle occupant by the first seating location and the second seating location and transmits an instruction to generate a user menu on a display of the user interface with a first set of options on a first region of the display specific to the categorization of the first vehicle occupant and a second set of options on a second region of the display specific to the categorization of the second vehicle occupant simultaneously with the first set of options. The first and second set of options are based, at least in part, on the rules and regulation data and include at least one of a temperature regulation or a speaker setting localized specific to the first seating location and the second seating location, respectively.
In another aspect, the monitoring system includes a vision system that uses structured light illumination in the infrared to project a structured light illumination distributed in a light spot array and capture reflected light spots. The processor extrapolates a depth of the vehicle occupant, extrapolates a 3-dimensional representation from image types, categorizes the occupant by a seating location of the 3D representation as a driver or a passenger, and when categorized as a passenger, determines a size in absolute scale to sub-categorize the passenger as an adult or a child to drive a user-menu instruction.
Claims Coverage
The claims coverage includes two inventive features across the independent claims: region-specific, rules-based user menu generation for simultaneously interfacing occupants, and 3D occupant representation from infrared structured light with passenger sub-categorization.
Region-specific, rules-based user menu for simultaneously interfacing occupants
A vision system configured to capture a presence of a first vehicle occupant and a second vehicle occupant; a processor periodically receiving rules and regulation data from an external database based, at least in part, on GPS coordinates of the vehicle; determining both occupants are attempting to interface with a user interface simultaneously; determining first and second seating locations by the captured presence; categorizing each occupant by seating location; and transmitting an instruction to generate a user menu with first and second sets of options in first and second regions of the display simultaneously, the options based, at least in part, on the rules and regulation data and including at least one of temperature regulation or a speaker setting localized to each seating location.
3D occupant representation from infrared structured light and passenger sub-categorization for user-menu instruction
A vision system including a structured light illumination source configured to project structured light illumination distributed in a light spot array and substantially in the infrared spectrum; at least one imaging device configured to capture at least one image type of a plurality of light spots reflected from a vehicle occupant; a processor extrapolating a depth of the vehicle occupant; extrapolating a 3-dimensional representation from the at least one image type; categorizing the occupant by a seating location of the 3D representation as a driver or a passenger; determining the passenger size in absolute scale to sub-categorize the passenger as an adult or a child; and transmitting an instruction to generate a user menu specific to the sub-categorization.
Across the independent claims, the inventive features center on vision-based detection of occupants attempting to interface with a user interface, seating-location-based categorization, simultaneous region-specific user menu generation, and rules/regulation data use based on vehicle GPS coordinates, with additional infrared structured-light depth and 3D representation extraction and passenger adult/child sub-categorization.
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