A disembarkation action determination device includes: an upper body movement detection section configured to detect for a first state in which an upper body of an occupant sitting on a vehicle seat has been lifted upright, based on a signal from a first sensor provided inside a vehicle cabin; a hand position detection section configured to detect for a second state in which a hand of the occupant sitting on the vehicle seat is in proximity to or contacting a door inside handle, based on a signal either from the first sensor or from a second sensor separate from the first sensor; and a disembarkation action determination section configured to determine that the occupant has initiated a disembarkation action in cases in which the first state has been detected by the upper body movement detection section and the second state has been detected by the hand position detection section.

Autonomous driving system methods and devices which trigger vehicular actions based on the monitoring of one or more occupants of a vehicle are presented. The methods, and corresponding devices, may include identifying a plurality of features in a plurality of subsets of image data detailing the one or more occupants; tracking changes over time of the plurality of features over the plurality of subsets of image data; determining a state, from a plurality of states, of the one or more occupants based on the tracked changes; and triggering the vehicular action based on the determined state.

Systems and methods monitor driver behavior for vehicular fleet management in a fleet of vehicles using driver-facing imaging device. The systems and methods herein relate generally to vehicular fleet management for enhancing safety of the fleet and improving the performance of the fleet drivers, and further relate to monitoring the operation of fleet vehicles using one or more driver-facing imaging devices disposed in the fleet vehicles for recording activities of the fleet drivers and their passengers, storing information relating to the monitored activities, selectively generating warnings related to the monitored activities, and reporting the monitored activities to a central fleet management system for use in enhancing the safety of the vehicles of the fleet and for helping to improve the performance of the fleet drivers.

A vehicular surrounding-monitoring control apparatus is mounted in a vehicle having an imaging unit capturing an image of surrounding and a display. The vehicular surrounding-monitoring control apparatus includes: an extraction section extracting, as an object region, an image region corresponding to each object from a captured image obtained by the imaging unit; a determining section determining whether a plurality of objects are coordinated into a group on the basis of positional relations of the object regions and types of the objects; and a display control unit displaying, when the objects are determined to be coordinated into a group, displaying a symbol image, which is specific to the group and expresses the presence of the group, so as to be superimposed on the captured image in the display.

A computer implemented method for detecting whether a seat belt is used in a vehicle comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: acquiring an image of an interior of the vehicle; determining a plurality of sub-images based on the image; detecting, for at least one of the sub-images, whether a portion of the seat belt is present in the respective sub-image; and determining whether the seat belt is used based on the detecting.

An apparatus and a method for controlling an airbag are provided The apparatus includes an imaging device that includes cameras and lights and an image processor that performs an image processing for an image obtained by the imaging device. A collision sensor senses a collision of a vehicle and an airbag driver operates the airbag. A controller extracts face information of a passenger from the image of which the image processing is performed by the image processor, determines airbag control information based on the extracted face information, and then operates the airbag driver based on the determined airbag control information when the collision of the vehicle is predicted.

A first data acquiring unit to acquire first data acquired by a first sensor, a second data acquiring unit to acquire second data acquired by a second sensor installed above a seat in a cabin, a front-seat occupant position estimating unit to estimate a position of an occupant on a basis of the first data acquired by the first data acquiring unit, a detection range determining unit to determine a detection range of the second sensor on a basis of the position of the front-seat occupant estimated by the front-seat occupant position estimating unit, and a rear-seat occupant detecting unit to detect a rear-seat occupant on a basis of the second data acquired by the second data acquiring unit and the detection range of the second sensor determined by the detection range determining unit are provided.

Disclosed are techniques and apparatuses for seat belt status detection in a vehicle. In an aspect, a method includes the operations of: obtaining first infrared (IR) images and second visible light images of a seat belt region where a seat belt is expected to be visible when it is worn by a person in the vehicle; transmitting the first images to a first classifier and the second image to a second classifier; determining a first estimate of probability and a second estimate of probability that the seat belt is correctly worn, from the first and second classifiers; combining the two estimates of probability, using respective scores attributed to the first and second images, each score being indicative of the trustworthiness of the corresponding image to detect a seat belt status, to determine a combined probability; and comparing the combined probability to a predetermined threshold to determine a seat belt status.

An identification device includes an inputter which receives image information of a person photographed by a camera, and a controller which identifies the person and detects parts, which are at least a head and hands, of the person based on the image information, thereby identifying a motion of the person based on the identified person, the detected parts, and a motion model in which a motion of a person is registered for every person, and outputs the identified motion of the person.

An automotive audio visual system includes a display screen on the vehicle, such as the central display screen on the vehicle's dashboard, and one or more rear cameras facing a rear passenger seat of the vehicle. The image or video feed from one or more rear cameras is displayed on the display screen in the vehicle, so that the front passengers can view the rear passenger area on the vehicle's display screen.