Device and method for recognising the type of occupation of a vehicle seat

摘要

The arrangement has a time and position resolving sensor arrangement (5) with a sensor (6) whose output signal can be fed to an evaluation unit (10) that can derive a force and/or pressure distribution of the detected region of the seat. The evaluation unit selects at least one pair of reference points from a pressure and/or force distribution correlated to different time points and derives a control signal (ST) corresp. to a person or object according to a change or no change respectively in the separation of the points. An Independent claim is also included for a method of detecting the presence of a living person.