REFERENCES CITED

Other Publications

CS231n Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition, Stanford, https://cs231n.github.io/convolutional-networks/A. W. Harley, “An Interactive Node-Link Visualization of Convolutional Neural Networks,” in International Symposium on Visual Computing, pages 867-877, 2015.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

With rising global temperatures, more and more children are dying from being left in cars at an unsafe temperature. Other inventions focus on cooling the car's temperature instead of alerting the parent to retrieve their child. This fails because the cooling system is finite and does not alert the parent to retrieve the child so the cooling system will eventually fail and the child will die in spite of the system. Another flaw that exists in many other inventions is that the invention is permanently integrated into a car seat, so once the child grows and requires a new seat, the system will not transition to the next car seat. My invention is portable and is not integrated into a car seat. This not only makes it grow-compatible, but it is also is less costly and the consumer can freely select a car seat.

Machine learning libraries allow engineers and developers to create real-world smart inventions, such inventions include Tesla and Google's self-driving cars, facial recognition, and even speech-text translation. One advantage machine learning has over sensors and data-driven methods is that it improves over time. The more data a machine learning system receives, the better and more accurate the machine learning will become. Machine learning libraries such as Tensorflow, PyTorch, and NumPy must be used with the code of the system to enable the extraction of features from the camera frames.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The Intelligent Camera Child Detection System has a camera sensor connected to a CPU equipped with machine learning software to detect the presence of the child. The driver simply plugs the power cord into the cigarette lighter socket to power the Intelligent Camera Child Detection System, and then place the Intelligent Camera Child Detection System on the back of the driver seat's headrest, facing the child and the car seat. In the case of rear facing car seat located in one of the rear passenger seats, the system should be placed on the headrest of the passenger seat.

When the vehicle is started, the Intelligent Camera Child Detection System powers on and activates. It detects whether there is a child inside the vehicle by feeding live video data from its camera into a machine learning neural network. By using a limit switch attached to the door frame, the system also detects if the door has been opened. When the vehicle is turned off, the system is powered by its internal rechargeable battery. When a child is detected and the door is opened, the system activates a loud audible alarm alerting the driver of his/her child.

