A system may receive head pose indications determined according to movement data from a motion sensor of an optical head-mounted display worn by a vehicle driver, determine, according to the head pose indications, driver activity characteristics indicative of a history of movement of the head of the driver, and send the driver activity characteristics to a driver-aware vehicle system configured to adjust driver notification based on the driver activity characteristics. The system may also receive raw movement data from a motion sensor of an optical head-mounted display worn on a head of a vehicle driver, compute head velocity data based on the raw movement data, compute head displacement data based on the head velocity data, and update head pose indications indicative of head positioning upon determining that the head displacement data exceeds a predetermined threshold displacement.

As described above, in a vehicle control system, in a predetermined condition where a vehicle peripheral condition recognizing unit recognizes a condition where a first user who has been in a vehicle leaves the vehicle and where an in-vehicle condition recognizing unit recognizes a condition where a second user is present in the vehicle, an alarm control unit performs alarm processing on at least one of inside the vehicle and outside the vehicle by using a notification function of the vehicle according to a detection result of a door open/close detection unit.

The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying digital images of occupants inside a vehicle. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying digital images of occupants inside a vehicle by comparing current image data to previously classified image data.

As described above, in a vehicle control system, in a predetermined condition where a vehicle peripheral condition recognizing unit recognizes a condition where a first user who has been in a vehicle leaves the vehicle and where an in-vehicle condition recognizing unit recognizes a condition where a second user is present in the vehicle, an alarm control unit performs alarm processing on at least one of inside the vehicle and outside the vehicle by using a notification function of the vehicle according to a detection result of a door open/close detection unit.

Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that conducts a real-time analysis of interior sensor data associated with a vehicle, exterior sensor data associated with the vehicle and environmental data associated with the vehicle. Additionally, the technology may determine whether a hazard condition exists based on the real-time analysis, wherein the hazard condition includes a deviation of a current behavior waveform from a reference behavior waveform by a predetermined amount. In one example, a safety measure is triggered with respect to the vehicle if the hazard condition exists. The safety measure may be selected based on a reaction time constraint associated with the hazard condition.

The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying images of occupants inside a vehicle. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying images of occupants inside a vehicle by comparing current image feature data to previously classified image features.

An apparatus for operating an airbag of an autonomous vehicle may include: an interior image sensor configured to capture an interior image of a vehicle; an input unit configured to receive collision prediction information from an autonomous driving system and the interior image from the interior image sensor; an airbag module installed at the front and side of the interior of the vehicle, and configured to deploy an airbag; and an airbag control unit configured to estimate the sitting position and dynamic behavior of the passenger from the interior image inputted from the input unit, estimate a collision status from the collision prediction information, determine an airbag to be deployed and a time to deploy the airbag according to the sitting position, and then output a deployment signal to the airbag module.

Disclosed is a system for controlling a vehicle safety device, the system including: a vehicle safety device configured to protect an occupant; a first occupant detection unit configured to detect a position of the occupant's movable body part; a second occupant detection unit configured to detect a position of the occupant's body part fixed to the safety device; a calculation unit configured to calculate information on the occupant's behavior in the event of a collision accident of a vehicle based on the position of the occupant's movable body part detected by the first occupant detection unit and the position of the occupant's body part fixed to the safety device detected by the second occupant detection unit; and a control unit configured to control an operation of the vehicle safety device for protecting the occupant based on the information on the occupant's behavior calculated by the calculation unit.

To robustly estimate three-dimensional behaviors of an occupant by fusing, through a particle filter, information obtained through vehicle indoor cameras and through vehicle internal information sensors, an occupant behavior estimation system includes: a camera configured to obtain images of the at least one occupant within the vehicle; sensors configured to obtain information on the vehicle; an image processing device configured to process images obtained from the camera and to obtain key point information of the at least one occupant and object tracking information that is provided by tracking the at least one occupant; and a vehicle safety controller configured to estimate the behaviors of the occupant by using a particle filter based on the information on the vehicle obtained through the sensors, the key point information and the object tracking information, which are obtained from the image processing device.

An apparatus for operating an airbag of an autonomous vehicle may include: an interior image sensor configured to capture an interior image of a vehicle; an input unit configured to receive collision prediction information from an autonomous driving system and the interior image from the interior image sensor; an airbag module installed at the front and side of the interior of the vehicle, and configured to deploy an airbag; and an airbag control unit configured to estimate the sitting position and dynamic behavior of the passenger from the interior image inputted from the input unit, estimate a collision status from the collision prediction information, determine an airbag to be deployed and a time to deploy the airbag according to the sitting position, and then output a deployment signal to the airbag module.