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Device for the detection of an object on a vehicle seat

US7379195B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Jason Yoon · Seoul, KR
Stefan Weidhaas · Munich, DE
Michael Bauer · Unterföhring, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 5, 2007
Grant date	May 27, 2008
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 5, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2207/30268
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for the detection of an object on a vehicle seat, including a camera and a processing unit for the generation of a two-dimensional representation of the object is provided. The device also includes at least two illumination sources, which are positioned in such a manner that the object can be illuminated from different directions, and the processing unit is suitable to generate a three-dimensional representation of the object from two dimensional representations, each generated under different illumination conditions.

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