Robert Boschgmbh

Hans-Dieter Bothe

Heiko Freienstein

Hoang Trinh

Thomas Engelberg

Steffen Abraham

Holger Fillbrandt

Marc Luther

Claudio Scaravati

Gabriele Mangiafico

Paolo Mario France Terzon

Stefano Riboli

Christian Schedler

Sarah Schuette

Sarah Möhring

Andreas Loewe

The invention relates to a monitoring devicefor monitoring a man-overboard situation in a ship sectionwherein the ship sectionis monitored by video technology using at least one cameraand the camerais designed to provide surveillance in the form of video data. The monitoring device comprises an evaluation devicesaid evaluation devicehaving an interface for receiving the video data, wherein the evaluation deviceis designed to detect a moving object in the ship sectionon the basis of the video data and to determine a kinematic variable of the moving object. The evaluation deviceis designed to determine a starting point in three dimensions on the basis of the video data and the kinematic variable of the moving object and to evaluate the moving object as a man-overboard event on the basis of the starting point.

Monitoring device and method for monitoring a man-overboard in a ship section

The invention relates to a calibration unit () for a monitoring device (), wherein the monitoring device () is designed as man-overboard monitoring of a ship section (), wherein the monitoring device has at least one camera () for video-monitoring the ship section () and for providing video data, wherein the camera () has at least one intrinsic calibration parameter () and at least one extrinsic calibration parameter (), wherein the video data is provided to the calibration unit (), comprising an input module () for a user to input one or more calibration elements () and comprising an evaluation module (), wherein the evaluation module () is designed to determine the unknown calibration parameters () based on the calibration elements (), in particular their orientation and/or extension.

Calibration unit for a monitoring device, monitoring device for man-overboard monitoring, and method for calibration

A device for adjusting seat components as a function of a signal from a video sensor system. Furthermore, a safety belt is adjusted as well as a function of the signal. This adjustment is carried out as a function of the occupant class, the occupant volume, the occupant pose, and the head position.

Device for adjusting seat components

An imaging sensor disposed in a vehicle includes an evaluation unit for monitoring the imaging sensor's operability based on an image signal, for example, by an evaluation of invariant patterns, empirical knowledge about measurement signal profiles, utilizing the redundancy of a network of sensors, or utilizing time-related redundancy.

Imaging sensor that monitors operability of the imaging sensor

A device and a method are proposed for monitoring, tracking and determining at least one calibration parameter of the geometrical calibration of at least one image sensor, the at least one image sensor monitoring a scene that stays the same in parts. In one exemplary embodiment, the at least one image sensor is used for monitoring the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle.

Device and method for calibrating an image sensor

A method and a device for detecting the occupancy state of a seat, e.g., in a vehicle, and for use in activating a restraint mechanism allocated to the seat, as a function of the occupancy state, are provided. With the aid of an image recording system, a 3D image of the seat is recorded and evaluated with respect to the occupancy state, and optionally also with respect to the type of the occupancy. For the evaluation, a 3D pattern is drawn upon, which is available externally or which is able to be generated internally in an initialization step. A hierarchically constructed evaluation also permits, after determination of an occupancy state, a classification with respect to the type of the respective occupancy.

Method and device for detecting the occupancy state of a seat

A method for detecting a person in a space includes at least one depth sensor producing spatial data about the space to be monitored, at least one sub-model, which is sub-dividable into further sub-models being used for at least one selected body part of a human, the spatial data being used to adapt the sub-models, the adaptation being checked by position parameters between the sub-models of different body parts, and the person being recognized using a complete model made up of the checked sub-models.

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Hans-Dieter Bothe