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US 2018/0022356 A1Published application
Vehicle interior and exterior monitoring
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorJames Robert McBride
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Abstract
A LIDAR sensor is mountable to a vehicle exterior with a field of view including a vehicle interior view first portion and a vehicle exterior view first portion. Data can be received from the LIDAR sensor. A state of a vehicle occupant can be determined based at least in part on data from the LIDAR sensor.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a LIDAR sensor mountable to a vehicle exterior with a field of view including a vehicle interior view first portion and a vehicle exterior view first portion.
A system, comprising a controller including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor, including instructions to:
- receive data from a first LIDAR sensor mountable to a vehicle exterior with a field of view including a vehicle interior view first portion and a vehicle exterior view first portion;
- and
- determine a state of a vehicle occupant based at least in part on data from the first LIDAR sensor.
A method, comprising:
- receiving data from a first LIDAR sensor mounted to a vehicle exterior with a field of view including a vehicle interior view first portion and a vehicle exterior view first portion;
- and
- determining a state of a vehicle occupant based at least in part on data from the first LIDAR sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.