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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nicholas M. Zayan, Fenton, MI (US);
Stephen R. W. Cooper, Fowlerville, MI (US);
Jon K. Wallace, Redford, MI (US);
Farid Khairallah, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Assignee:
TRW Inc., Lyndhurst, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 2/132 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 2/132 ;
Abstract
A vehicle occupant sensor apparatus ( ) has an imager ( ) that gathers an image of an occupant ( ). The image has focus attributes. A focal plane associated with the imager ( ) is at a distance from the imager. A 2D high-pass filter ( ), a multiple frame temporal filter ( ), and a position determination component ( ) operate to determine position of the occupant ( ) relative to the focal plane ( ) via use of the focus attributes.