Method of controlling a heating and air conditioning system in a motor vehicle
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsStephan Durach, Danny Borke, Alexander Augst
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Abstract
A method for controlling a heating and air conditioning system equipped with actuators, preferably vents, is provided. Interior conditions are detected by an interior sensing system, with at least the seat occupancy with occupants being automatically recognized by an object recognition system on the basis of the data supplied by the interior sensing system. An optimized adjustment of the heating and air conditioning system to the seat occupancy is automatically performed as a function of the recognized seat occupancy.
Claims6
A method of controlling a vehicle interior heating and air conditioning system equipped with actuators, comprising the acts of:
- detecting interior conditions with an interior sensing system;
- automatically detecting seat occupancy with an object recognition system on the basis of data received from the interior sensing system;
- and
- adjusting automatically the heating and air conditioning system actuators as a function of seat occupancy to maintain desired interior conditions at at least one of a plurality of seats within the vehicle interior,
- wherein
- in the step of detecting seat occupancy, a head position is calculated by the object recognition system for at least one occupant, and
- in the adjusting step, an optimized setting of the heating and air conditioning system for each detected occupant is automatically performed by actuators as a function of seat occupancy and head position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.