OCCUPANT CRASH PROTECTIVE DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an occupant crash protective device for a vehicle capable of quickly drawing out through a simple procedure appropriate occupant information for protection when the vehicle has collided. SOLUTION: From a pair of frame images photographed simultaneously, the distance measuring data of the uppermost part of an object to be measured located ahead of a seat is selected as a major or only one parameter of the occupant information used in controlling occupant protection when the vehicle has collided (S106), and this distance measuring data of the uppermost part of the object is used in an air bag development control mode as the head of the occupant (S108).