AVS vs. TOYOTA、GENTEX

美國德州公司American Vehicular Sciences LLC(AVS)於2012.6.25.向美國德州東部聯邦地院控告TOYOTA及GENTEX之智慧型光束自動大燈調光技術及車輛侵害其US5,845,000號專利。

US5,845,000
Title : Optical identification and monitoring system using pattern recognition for use
with vehicles
Filing Date : 1995.6.7
.Issue Date : 1998.12.1.
Abstract :
A vehicle interior monitoring system to identify, locate and monitor occupants, including their parts, and other objects in the passenger compartment and objects outside of a motor vehicle, such as an automobile or truck, by illuminating the contents of the vehicle and objects outside of the vehicle with electromagnetic, and specifically infrared, radiation and using one or more lenses to focus images of the contents onto one or more arrays of charge coupled devices (CCD arrays). Outputs from the CCD arrays, are analyzed by appropriate computational means employing trained pattern recognition technologies, to classify, identify or locate the contents or external objects. In general, the information obtained by the identification and monitoring system is used to affect the operation of some other system in the vehicle. When system is installed in the passenger compartment of an automotive vehicle equipped with an airbag, the system determines the position of the vehicle occupant relative to the airbag and disables deployment of the airbag if the occupant is positioned so that he/she is likely to be injured by the deployment of the airbag.

本專利的原始專利權人為：Automotive Technologies International, Inc. ，2012.4.10.轉讓給American Vehicular Sciences LLC，而AVS為大型NPEAcacia Research Group LLC下的子公司，專門從事專利授權。