Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Jun Lin

Jialiang Le

Saeed David Barbat

Hubert Szawarski

A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive a first image frame from a first camera of a vehicle and a second image frame from a second camera of the vehicle, identify a common point in the first image frame and the second image frame, determine a projected position of the common point projected onto a plane based on the first image frame and the second image frame, and determine a position of the common point based on the projected position. A first optical axis defined by the first camera and a second optical axis defined by the second camera are in the plane.

Occupant head position in vehicle

A system comprises a computer having a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to access sensor data from one or more imaging radar sensors of a vehicle, identify, based on the sensor data, a radar point cloud corresponding to an occupant of the vehicle, analyze the radar point cloud to determine an occupant classification of the occupant, determine an operating parameter for a feature of the vehicle based on the occupant classification, and implement the operating parameter for the feature.

Vehicle occupant classification using radar point cloud

Systems and methods of opening a vehicle liftgate based on an interior radar sensor that may be used to detect a user outside the rear of the vehicle are provided. The interior radar sensor may be installed behind the center line of a headliner of the vehicle, and detect the user's head and/or an upper-body gesture through the rear window of the vehicle. e.g., upon detection of a key fob carried by the user outside the vehicle. Upon detection of a valid gesture, e.g., a predetermined pattern of movement, by the user, the liftgate may be actuated to open.

Systems and methods of interior sensor-based vehicle liftgate actuation

A vehicle seating assembly comprises a seat including a back having an array of at least two electrodes arranged in the back such that a master electrode has an electric field being greater than an electric field of each of the other electrodes within the array to detect a total change in capacitance from the array. A controller is responsive to a change in capacitance calculated from the master electrode being greater than a first threshold and each of the other electrodes in the array being greater than a second threshold and outputs occupant movement data indicative of a first status of the seat to a vehicle control sub-system.

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Westland, MI, United States of America

Jun Lin