A rules-based occupant classification system for airbag deployment
CA 2387076 A1 · Owner: Ahmed, Usman · Inventors: Baloch, Aijaz Ahmed; Ahmed, Usman; Afridi, Khurram Khan
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An occupant classification system utilizes a rules-based expert system to automatically, classify the occupant of a seat for the purposes of airbag deployment. The invention, provides users with the ability to create test, and modify the image , attributes or "features" used by the expert system to classify occupants into one of several predefined occupant-, type categories. Users are also provided the ability to create test, and , modify the, processes utilizing those chosen features. The user of the invention designs the features, and the algorithms used by the expert system classifier. A feature extractor is used to, extract features from an image of the occupant and surrounding …
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