121 |
Collision avoidance and/or pedestrian detection system |
US15448432 |
2017-03-02 |
US09908470B1 |
2018-03-06 |
Benjamin Englander; Julian Serer |
A collision avoidance and/or pedestrian detection system for a large passenger vehicle such as commuter bus, which includes one or more exterior and/or interior sensing devices positioned strategically around the exterior and interior of the vehicle for recording data, method for avoiding collisions and/or detecting pedestrians, and features/articles of manufacture for improving same, is described herein in various embodiments. The sensing devices may be responsive to one or more situational sensors, and may be connected to one or more interior and/or exterior warning systems configured to alert a driver inside the vehicle and/or a pedestrian outside the vehicle that a collision may be possible and/or imminent based on a path of the vehicle and/or a position of the pedestrian as detected by one or more sensing devices and/or situational sensors. |
122 |
Integrated child safety seat |
US15289048 |
2016-10-07 |
US09796303B1 |
2017-10-24 |
Lizbeth Schonfeld; David Schonfeld |
An infant safety car seat seamlessly and permanently integrated into the bench seat between two adult seats or replacing the adult seats if more than one is incorporated into the vehicle. The child seat is sunken or not below and behind the vehicle bench and seat and safety harnesses are permanently installed to secure an infant in the safety seat. The seat adjusts to allow forward or rearward facing configurations suitable to different ages of the infant, from zero to eight years old. Security features are internally integrated to prevent the incidence of leaving an unbuckled and/or an unattended infant in a vehicle that includes some combination of a scale, hasps sensors in display and video monitor of cameras in screen. |
123 |
Collision avoidance and/or pedestrian detection system |
US15078183 |
2016-03-23 |
US09718405B1 |
2017-08-01 |
Benjamin Englander; Julian Serer |
A collision avoidance and/or pedestrian detection system for a large passenger vehicle such as commuter bus, which includes one or more exterior and/or interior sensing devices positioned strategically around the exterior and interior of the vehicle for recording data, method for avoiding collisions and/or detecting pedestrians, and features/articles of manufacture for improving same, is described herein in various embodiments. The sensing devices may be responsive to one or more situational sensors, and may be connected to one or more interior and/or exterior warning systems configured to alert a driver inside the vehicle and/or a pedestrian outside the vehicle that a collision may be possible and/or imminent based on a path of the vehicle and/or a position of the pedestrian as detected by one or more sensing devices and/or situational sensors. |
124 |
DISPLAY DEVICE AND VEHICLE |
US15129871 |
2015-04-30 |
US20170155867A1 |
2017-06-01 |
Soichiro YOKOTA; Kenichiroh SAISHO; Hiromi YOSHIKAWA; Tomoko ISHIGAKI; Fumiko SAKOH |
Disclosed is a display device including a passenger image capture unit configured to capture information of a passenger who is riding in a vehicle together with a driver of the vehicle; an image generator configured to generate an image that shows a condition of the passenger based on the information that is captured by the passenger image capture unit; and an image display unit configured to superimpose the image with a visual field of the driver, and configured to display the image in the visual field of the driver. |
125 |
VIDEO CAMERA DEVICE AND METHOD TO MONITOR A CHILD IN A VEHICLE |
US15382149 |
2016-12-16 |
US20170104963A1 |
2017-04-13 |
Giuseppe Veneziano |
The present invention is directed to a system and methods of monitoring a child seated in the rear seat of a vehicle in a child's car seat employing a video camera which transmits a video signal to a video display receiver placed in the driver's frame of vision. The video camera as envisioned herein is placed within a child's stuffed toy, the camera signal being transmitted remotely to a separate video display monitor screen device, viewable to the parent driving the vehicle. The camera is adjustable in the number of positions in which it is placed in the vehicle compartment as well as the direction in which the camera is directed. To adjust the direction in which the camera is pointed, the invention includes a bendable, flexible and sturdy neck that interconnects the camera to a transmission unit, which provides the driver with a view of the child. |
126 |
CONVERTIBLE VANITY MIRROR ASSEMBLY |
US14251790 |
2014-04-14 |
US20150291098A1 |
2015-10-15 |
Jon Robert Pendlebury |
In a convertible mirror assembly for a vehicle visor, a flexible mirror is operably coupled to a housing and is operable between first and second display states. A slider mechanism is slidably supported on the housing and operably coupled to the flexible mirror. The slider mechanism is adapted to move along the housing between retracted and extended positions, whereby the flexible mirror is in the first display state when the slider mechanism is in the retracted position, and in the second display state when the slider mechanism is in the extended position. When moved to the extended position, the slider mechanism urges the flexible mirror to an outwardly curved or convex configuration to define a conversation mirror configuration. |
127 |
Convertible vanity mirror assembly |
US14251790 |
2014-04-14 |
US09150157B1 |
2015-10-06 |
Jon Robert Pendlebury |
In a convertible mirror assembly for a vehicle visor, a flexible mirror is operably coupled to a housing and is operable between first and second display states. A slider mechanism is slidably supported on the housing and operably coupled to the flexible mirror. The slider mechanism is adapted to move along the housing between retracted and extended positions, whereby the flexible mirror is in the first display state when the slider mechanism is in the retracted position, and in the second display state when the slider mechanism is in the extended position. When moved to the extended position, the slider mechanism urges the flexible mirror to an outwardly curved or convex configuration to define a conversation mirror configuration. |
128 |
Overhead console of vehicle |
US13472070 |
2012-05-15 |
US08894224B2 |
2014-11-25 |
Jong Bae Park; June Soo Park |
An overhead console apparatus of a vehicle may include a housing provided in a front portion of an indoor ceiling of the vehicle and having a downwardly open accommodation portion formed therein, a glass case accommodated in the accommodation portion and rotatably coupled to the housing around a rotating shaft that may be formed on a front side surface thereof in a traverse direction of the vehicle, a conversation mirror accommodated in a rear portion of the glass case in the accommodation portion, and a switch slidably provided on a side of the glass case to selectively couple the glass case and the conversation mirror, wherein when the switch moves in a first direction, the conversation mirror may be integrally coupled to the glass case, and when the switch moves in a second direction, the conversation mirror may be separated from the glass case. |
129 |
SLIDING CONVERSATION MIRROR ASSEMBLY WITH FRICTION TABS FOR VEHICLE OVERHEAD CONSOLE |
US13735546 |
2013-01-07 |
US20140192430A1 |
2014-07-10 |
Bhavani Thota; Ricardo Juarez Favila; Salvador Soriano; Mark Haradean |
A vehicle overhead console is provided which includes a conversation mirror assembly having a housing capable of storing a conversation mirror. The conversation mirror may travel between a stored and a use position. The conversation mirror is releasably secured to the stored and use positions by way of magnetic, tab, and spring arrangements. |
130 |
Mirror arrangement for monitoring a passenger cabin of an aircraft |
US13189025 |
2011-07-22 |
US08602571B2 |
2013-12-10 |
Frank Klepka; Stephan Waetzold; Wolfgang Moeller |
A mirror arrangement (10) for monitoring a passenger cabin of an aircraft is disclosed, comprising at least one mirror element (40) for reflecting light and a mirror mount (20) for fastening the at least one mirror element (40) inside the passenger cabin, the mirror mount (20) comprising a holder (22), to which the at least one mirror element (40) is fastenable and which is displaceable relative to the passenger cabin. |
131 |
Overhead console of vehicle |
US13323304 |
2011-12-12 |
US08505994B2 |
2013-08-13 |
Jong Bae Park; June Soo Park |
An overhead console of the vehicle may include a housing provided on a front portion of an indoor ceiling of the vehicle and having a downwardly open accommodation portion formed therein, a glass case accommodated in the accommodation portion and rotatably coupled to the housing around a rotating shaft that may be formed on a front side surface of the housing in a traverse direction of the vehicle, and a conversation mirror rotatably coupled with the housing in the accommodation portion and selectively engaged with a rear portion of the glass case. |
132 |
OVERHEAD CONSOLE OF VEHICLE |
US13472070 |
2012-05-15 |
US20130120864A1 |
2013-05-16 |
Jong Bae Park; June Soo PARK |
An overhead console apparatus of a vehicle may include a housing provided in a front portion of an indoor ceiling of the vehicle and having a downwardly open accommodation portion formed therein, a glass case accommodated in the accommodation portion and rotatably coupled to the housing around a rotating shaft that may be formed on a front side surface thereof in a traverse direction of the vehicle, a conversation mirror accommodated in a rear portion of the glass case in the accommodation portion, and a switch slidably provided on a side of the glass case to selectively couple the glass case and the conversation mirror, wherein when the switch moves in a first direction, the conversation mirror may be integrally coupled to the glass case, and when the switch moves in a second direction, the conversation mirror may be separated from the glass case. |
133 |
VEHICLE VISOR HAVING MIRROR ASSEMBLY |
US13179779 |
2011-07-11 |
US20130016429A1 |
2013-01-17 |
Chi Li; John Andrew Stakoe; Changhong Chen; Haibo Wang |
A vehicle visor is provided that includes a mirror assembly. The visor body has a first side and a second side and pivots between a stowed position and a downward use position. The visor body further includes a mirror assembly located on the visor body. The mirror assembly includes a conversation mirror that is extendable from a first side of the visor body for viewing from the first side of the visor body, and is stowable within the visor body for viewing through an aperture from the second side of the visor body. The mirror may serve as a vanity mirror. |
134 |
FORWARD FACING IMAGING SYSTEM |
US13353492 |
2012-01-19 |
US20120120239A1 |
2012-05-17 |
Barry W. Hutzel; Niall R. Lynam; Darryl P. DeWind; John O. Lindahl |
A forward facing imaging system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly mounted at an interior portion of a vehicle and a camera disposed at the interior rearview mirror assembly. The camera has a forward field of view through a windshield of the vehicle. The camera captures image data and captured image data is recorded by a recording system. During operation of the vehicle, the recording system records image data, as it is captured over a given period of operation of the vehicle, in a closed-loop fashion onto electronic memory. Image data, as captured by the camera, is processed by an image processor in order to determine the presence of at least one object forward of the equipped vehicle. |
135 |
Mirror arrangement for monitoring a passenger cabin of an aircraft |
US13189025 |
2011-07-22 |
US20120019944A1 |
2012-01-26 |
Frank Klepka; Stephan Waetzold; Wolfgang Moeller |
The present invention relates to a mirror arrangement (10) for monitoring a passenger cabin of an aircraft, comprising at least one mirror element (40) for reflecting light and a mirror mount (20) for fastening the at least one mirror element (40) inside the passenger cabin, the mirror mount (20) comprising a holder (22), to which the at least one mirror element (40) is fastenable and which is displaceable relative to the passenger cabin. |
136 |
In-vehicle mount display controller, in-vehicle mount display device, display control method, control program and recording medium |
US10557485 |
2004-05-21 |
US07990416B2 |
2011-08-02 |
Hideki Kuwata |
The state of a vehicle rear portion such as the state of a rear seat or the like and the state of a vehicle rear side are allowed to be easily grasped at a driver's seat, and also the state of a vehicle front side is allowed to be easily grasped at a rear seat.An in-vehicle display device 10 is equipped with a camera 13, plural monitors 12, 21, an image pickup direction detector 24 for detecting the image pickup direction of the camera 13 and outputting an image pickup direction signal, and a controller 22 for selecting any one of plural monitors 12, 21 on the basis of the image pickup direction signal, and displaying the pickup image of the camera 13 on the selected monitor. |
137 |
Adjustable mirror attachment |
US12732812 |
2010-03-26 |
US07862189B1 |
2011-01-04 |
Lawrence O. Freese |
A mirror device for observing an infant in a rear-facing child safety car seat secured to the rear seat of a vehicle including a front seating area, a rear seating area, and a rear seat within the rear seating area, the rear seat having an upwardly-extending headrest. The mirror device includes a mirror and backing assembly having a rear surface, and an attachment connected to the rear surface for attaching the mirror device to the headrest. The attachment in turn includes a swivel device having a concavity element including a first bowl-like structure having a concave working surface; and a corresponding convexity element including a second bowl-like structure having a convex working surface configured to engage the concave working surface. The concavity and convexity elements are frictionally maintained in a desired adjusted position with reference to each other, while at the same time permitting manual adjustment. |
138 |
Multi-faced conversation mirror |
US11758185 |
2007-06-05 |
US07686464B2 |
2010-03-30 |
Grant A. Compton; Jay R. Degenkolb; Doug Vandervoort; George Walowich; Lynda Kristen Fulgenzi; Lisa Burns; Gerald L. Elrite |
A conversation mirror assembly is provided for use in passenger compartments of motor vehicles. The conversation mirror assembly includes a mirror housing having a mirror support surface. A first conversation mirror face biased toward the driver is fitted to the mirror support surface. A second conversation mirror face biased toward the front seat passenger is fitted to the mirror support surface adjacent the first conversation mirror. The first conversation mirror face and the second conversation mirror face may be either spherical or aspherical. The first conversation mirror face may be separate from the second conversation mirror face. Alternatively, the first conversation mirror face and the second conversation mirror face define two facets of a single mirror. |
139 |
REAR SEAT PASSENGER SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM |
US12126516 |
2008-05-23 |
US20090290021A1 |
2009-11-26 |
Della J. Rudesill; John R. Rudesill |
A rear seat passenger surveillance camera/display system is constructed of an automobile that has a dashboard, a rear seat and a headliner panel; a video camera mounted on the headline panel at a substantially central location with a lens of the camera pointing downwardly; a video display panel mounted on the dashboard for receiving signals from the video camera, displaying an image of the rear seat, and for viewing by the automobile operator; and wiring for supplying electric power to the video camera and the video display panel from a power source in the automobile. |
140 |
INTERIOR REARVIEW MIRROR SYSTEM WITH IDENTIFIER MODULE |
US12205067 |
2008-09-05 |
US20090005136A1 |
2009-01-01 |
Barry W. Hutzel; Niall R. Lynam; Darryl P. DeWind; John O. Lindahl |
An interior rearview mirror system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having a casing and a reflective element. The interior rearview mirror assembly includes a module that provides a specific identifier for telecommunication occurring at least one of to the vehicle in which the interior mirror assembly is mounted and from the vehicle in which the interior mirror assembly is mounted. The module may have a caller identifier for a communication system, with the identifier identifying a subscriber of the communication system for making telephone calls to and from the vehicle in which the interior mirror assembly is mounted. The vehicle in which the interior mirror assembly is mounted may have at least one element operable for establishing the telecommunication with the communication system, and the module of the interior mirror assembly may have an identifier module that identifies a subscriber of the communication system. |