Systems and methods may predict location of a vehicle occupant in the event of a collision involving the vehicle and another entity. Information indicative of a posture of the occupant prior to the collision may be obtained based on information from one or more image sensors of the vehicle. Systems and methods determine whether one or more conditions corresponding to an increased likelihood of ejection of the occupant are present, based on the posture. The systems and methods further may automatically generate and provide a visual notification to a device of a responder, the visual notification indicating that the increased likelihood of ejection of the occupant is present, as well as a location of the occupant.

A motor vehicle includes a structural element and a seat having at least two separate and independent seat portions, each of the seat portions being configured to support a part of a user's body and being independently coupled to the structural element in a movable manner relative to the structural element with three degrees of freedom including two translations in a plane along respective orthogonal axes and a rotation around a further axis orthogonal to said plane.

Disclosed is a seat control apparatus which includes a sensor, an actuator, memory, and a controller. The seat control apparatus may determine, based on a predetermined event, a seat corresponding to the predetermined event. The seat may include a leg rest. The seat control apparatus may determine, using the sensor, at least one of: state information of the seat, which is movable by the actuator, or user information of a user who is sitting on the seat; and activating, based on at least one of the state information or the user information, a heating element for the leg rest.

A sensor system is sensitive to the determination of activity, movement and position of a passenger in a vehicle. In particular, the determination of the position and movement of passengers in a vehicle can be enhanced by providing groupings of transmitting antennas and/or multiple infusion antennas. The sensing system is able to determine the movement and activity of the passengers at various ranges and locations within the vehicle.

Disclosed herein is an apparatus for rear seat detection. The apparatus may include: an indoor camera having a field of view for a vehicle interior and configured to provide image data; an indoor radar having a sensing area for the vehicle interior and configured to provide radar data; a controller including a first processor and a second processor. The first processor configured to obtain information on a change in a front passenger seat and a rear seat of a vehicle based on processing the image data The second processor configured to obtain motion information on an object in the rear seat of the vehicle based on processing the radar data. The first controller may identify a change of a detection area in the rear seat based on the information on the change in the front passenger seat and the rear seat of the vehicle, and determine whether a human is seated in the rear seat of the vehicle based on the motion information on the object in the detection area where the change is identified.

An instrument cluster apparatus for a vehicle including a display is disclosed. A pressure sensing input interface is connectable to a plurality of pressure sensors distributed in a seat, a backrest, and a headrest of a driver seat to receive a plurality of pressure readings sensed by the plurality of pressure sensors, and a processor is connected to the display and the pressure sensing input interface, the processor being configured to control at least one portion of the display to switch from displaying one or more vehicle parameters to displaying a driver posture warning based on the plurality of pressure readings meeting one of a plurality of preset conditions over a corresponding predetermined time period. A driver posture warning arrangement including the instrument cluster apparatus and the driver seat having the plurality of pressure sensors is also disclosed.

A vehicle seat air-conditioning device includes: a blower that is included in a seat; at least one of an inlet duct or an outlet duct, the inlet duct being a duct through which air is led to be drawn in from a surface of the seat by the blower, and the outlet duct being a duct through which the air led by the blower is discharged from a surface of the seat; and a controller that is electrically connected to the blower. The blower includes a current detection circuit that detects a current consumption of the blower. The controller determines whether an occupant is sitting on the seat, based on the current consumption detected by the current detection circuit.

Disclosed are a shoulder airbag and a method of controlling deployment thereof that are capable of adjusting the amount of inflation of chambers covering an occupant's shoulders depending on the body type of the occupant and/or the collision direction of a vehicle, thereby safely protecting the occupant in various collision situations. The shoulder airbag includes an occupant detection sensor configured to detect the posture and body type of an occupant, an airbag cushion including chambers configured to be inflated and deployed so as to cover the front, side, and upper portions of each of the shoulders of the occupant, and a controller configured to variably control the amount of inflation of each of the chambers covering the front, side, and upper portions of each of the shoulders of the occupant based on occupant information analyzed based on the posture and body type of the occupant when a collision accident occurs.

A method and control unit for adjusting an adjustable vehicle seat is provided. The method comprising: obtaining environmental information, as an indicative of a probability of a crash event; determining a probability of a crash event to occur based on the obtained environmental information; when the probability is higher than a crash threshold, obtaining occupant information representing current information about the occupant, and seat position information as indicative of the current vehicle seat position; and based on the occupant information and the seat position information: determining a seat adjustment; and adjusting, the adjustable vehicle seat, in accordance with the determined seat adjustment, from an initial toward an optimal crash position until the optimal crash position is reached or, if the crash event occurs, until the crash event has occurred. Furthermore, a crash safety system for the event of a potential crash and vehicle comprising the crash system is also described.

A method and a system for assisting in correcting the posture of an occupant of a vehicle seat, comprising: a. collecting the posture of the occupant of the seat via sensors; b. calculating comfort indices; c. comparing them with reference values; d. generating a first alert signal intended for a first alert device when a reference value is reached; and e. generating a second alert signal intended for first and/or second alert devices when another reference value is reached.