Method for detecting state of presence of object in vehicle

A system comprising:

• a receiving unit configured to receive data from various devices in a vehicle;
• and
• a processing unit, the processing unit configured to:
• process data received over time from the various devices in the vehicle, including determining different types of parameters indicative of at least one of a presence or an absence of an object in the vehicle based on the received data, mapping the different types of parameters to respective scores, and accumulating the scores in a set of accumulated scores;
• determine, based on the set of accumulated scores, an object-related confidence value representing a likelihood that the detected object is present in the vehicle;
• and
• compare the object-related confidence value to a predetermined threshold and detecting the presence of the object in the vehicle in response to the object-related confidence value exceeding the predetermined threshold.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including:

• processing data received over time from various devices in a vehicle, including determining different types of parameters indicative of at least one of a presence or an absence of detected an object in the vehicle based on the received data, mapping the different types of parameters to respective scores, and accumulating the scores in a set of accumulated scores;
• determining, based on the set of accumulated scores, an object-related confidence value representing a likelihood that the object is present in the vehicle;
• and
• comparing the object-related confidence value to a predetermined threshold and detecting the presence of the detected object in the vehicle in response to the object-related confidence value exceeding the predetermined threshold.