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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2023
Woven BY Toyota, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hiroshi Yasuda, San Francisco, CA (US);
Julia I. Pralle, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Woven By Toyota, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system for mitigating an effect of a collision between a vehicle and an obstacle can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a seat occupancy determination module and a set of modules including a candidate response determination module, a candidate response evaluation module, and a controller module. The seat occupancy determination module can determine a state of a seat with respect to being occupied by a living being, the seat being on a first side opposite of a second side at which an operator is located. The set of modules can cause, in response to the state being: (1) occupied, a first set of operations to be implemented and (2) unoccupied, a second set of operations to be implemented. Each of the first set and the second set can be different from a current trajectory of the vehicle and can mitigate the effect of the collision.