A temperature sensing child safety seat for preventing hyperthermia and hypothermia includes a safety seat that is configured to secure a child in a vehicle. The safety seat comprises a base that defines an interior space. A power module, a microprocessor, and a communications module are coupled to the base and positioned in the interior space. A plurality of sensors is coupled to the safety seat. The microprocessor is operationally coupled to the power module, the communications module, and the sensors. The sensors are configured to measure a temperature and to communicate a temperature reading to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is positioned, in an event the temperature reading deviates from a prespecified range, to compel the communications module to alert emergency personnel.

A physique estimation device determines a seat on which an occupant is seated on the basis of face information of the occupant detected from an image capturing a vehicle compartment, calculates the occupant's sitting height using a difference between a reference position and a face position for the determined seat, and estimates the occupant's physique on the basis of the occupant's sitting height.

A method for displaying the arrangement of components in a transportation vehicle in which the arrangement of the components increases the usage safety when the components are fixedly lockable at one or more fastening points in the transportation vehicle and have at least two different setting positions.

A child safety seat accident detection system that has a device such as an accelerometer for determining an acceleration of the seat, and a processor, operably connected to the device for determining an acceleration of the seat, and that is configured to judge, based at least on the determined acceleration, if the seat has been in a motor vehicle accident.

Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining and responding to an internal state of a self-driving vehicle. For instance, an image of an interior of the vehicle captured by a camera mounted in the vehicle is received. The image is processed in order to identify one or more visible markers at predetermined locations within the vehicle. The internal state of the vehicle is determined based on the identified one or more visible markers. A responsive action is identified action using the determined internal state, and the vehicle is controlled in order to perform the responsive action.

An adaptive safety on-board vehicle multi-force restraint system provides mitigation of negative consequences of imminent crash of contemporary, self-driving, or autonomous vehicle. The adaptive safety multi-force restraint system applies different forces to the driver and passenger bodies of different weight categories by employing an occupant's original weight, accurately measured by innovative weighing KEF method and technology at the beginning of a trip by the TRIBS method. The occupant's original weight is eventually modified during the trip according to the current values of the morphological and driving factors. The present invention provides an accurate timing adjustment of different parts of the safety system to prevent occupants of the self-driving or autonomous vehicle from fatalities and injuries in case of collision on the road by extending a current Passenger Classification System, creating a Driver Classification System, and more accurately controlling the force applied to lighter weighing people and youngsters. During a trip, a controlling unit continuously adjusts the needed access in case of crash for the part of gas to move from restraint source by the modified signal of original weight of the occupant and current morphological and the car trip situation parameters. A structure of a mixed safety restraint ADMUS-M system with a low risk for small children and a method of people accurate weight in a vehicle monitoring in case of the metabolism problems and kidney disorders without their hospitalization are provided.

Techniques are described with respect to addressing vehicular seat component risk. An associated method includes identifying any risk factor associated with a physical configuration of a vehicular seat component within a vehicle, identifying any risk factor associated with health of an occupant of the vehicular seat component, and identifying any risk factor associated with compatibility of the occupant of the vehicular seat component. The method further includes transmitting to at least one entity associated with the vehicle at least one alert addressing one or more of the identified risk factors. In an embodiment, transmitting the at least one alert includes creating the at least one alert including a calculated sum of risk level values assigned to each identified risk factor and information related to one or more identified risk factors based upon risk level value in the context of at least one predefined risk threshold value.

A child safety seat may include a motion sensor, e.g., an accelerometer, and a pressure sensor, e.g., a air pressure sensor. The motion sensor is configured to detect a motion state of a vehicle where the child safety seat is installed, e.g., whether the vehicle is moving or non-moving. The pressure sensor is configured to detect a motion state of a door of the vehicle, e.g., a door open/close motion. Based on the information detected by the motion sensor and the pressure sensor, a controller determines whether an awareness scenario occurs.

The invention relates to a marking object that can be placed on a vehicle child seat for adaptive actuation of an airbag, which is configured to reflect electromagnetic radiation and mark a position and/or orientation of the vehicle child seat in relation to a vehicle seat for an imaging sensor based on the reflection, in order to actuate the airbag depending on the position and/or orientation of the vehicle child seat, wherein the marking object is a Quick Response code, radar reflector, lidar reflector, or infrared reflector. The invention also relates to a vehicle child seat, a method for determining a position and/or orientation of a vehicle child seat in relation to a vehicle seat, and interior monitoring system, a computer program for adaptive actuation of an airbag and a computer readable data carrier.

A capacitive seat occupancy detection and classification system with a capacitive sensor having at least two distinct antenna electrodes and a method of operating is proposed to reduce an impact of the sensor-to-object impedance Z.sub.SO on an object-to-ground impedance Z.sub.OG measurement that the system performs. By measuring the impedance between the different antenna electrodes by the system, additional information is obtainable that can be used to compensate the impact of the sensor-to-object impedance Z.sub.SO on the object-to-ground impedance. As one effect of combining both impedance measurement results, the proposed system is able to determine the object-to-ground impedance Z.sub.OG completely independent from wear of ISOFIX anchorages or human objects touching the electric ground of the vehicle, thus ensuring a stable classification of the object over the entire vehicle lifetime. The method further enables high-resolution seat occupancy classification.