Patents Held by Dr. Michael E. Farmer
U.S. Patents Awarded
| Number | Title | Date Awarded |
| 6,944,527 | Decision Enhancement system for a vehicle safety restraint application (pdf) | September 2005 |
| 6,925,193 | Image processing system for dynamic suppression of airbags using multiple model likelihoods to infer three dimensional information (pdf) | August 2005 |
| 6,856,694 | Decision enhancement system for a vehicle safety restraint application (pdf) | February 2005 |
| 6,853,898 | Occupant labeling for airbag-related applications (pdf) | February 2005 |
| 6,662,093 | Image processing system for detecting when an airbag should be deployed (pdf) | Dec 2003 |
| 6,577,936 | Image processing system for estimating the energy transfer of an occupant into an airbag (pdf) | June 2003 |
| 6,366,236 | Neural network radar processor (pdf) | April 2002 |
| 6,252,240 | Vehicle occupant discrimination system and method (pdf) | June 2001 |
| 6,198,998 | Occupant type and position detection system (pdf) | March 2001 |
| 6,085,151 | Predictive collision sensing system (pdf) | July 2000 |
| 6,028,548 | Vehicle collision radar with randomized FSK waveform (pdf) | February 2000 |
| 6,005,958 | Occupant type and position detection system (pdf) | December 1999 |
| 5,979,586 | Vehicle collision warning system (pdf) | November 1999 |
| 5,969,667 | Radar system (technique for removing leakage signal from multi-beam mono-static radar) (pdf) | October 1999 |
| 5,923,280 | Vehicle collision radar with randomized FSK waveform (pdf) | July 1999 |
| 5,800,262 | Acoustic volume and torque weight sensor (continuation in part) (pdf) | September 1998 |
| 5,685,772 | Acoustic volume and torque weight sensor (pdf) | November 1997 |
| 5,682,485 | Deadlock avoidance for switched interconnect bus systems (pdf) | October 1997 |
| 5,606,821 | Smart weed recognition/classification system (pdf) | March 1997 |
| 5,519,401 | Programmed radar coordinate scan conversion (pdf) | May 1996 |
| 5,343,204 | Auto-focusing correction for rotational acceleration effects on inverse synthetic aperture radar images (pdf) | August 1994 |
Patents Under Review at USPTO
| Number | Title | Date Submitted |
| 20050179239 | Imaging sensor placement in an airbag deployment system | August 2005 |
| 20050177290 | System or method for classifying target information captured by a sensor | August 2005 |
| 20050129274 | Motion-based segmentor detecting vehicle occupants using optical flow method to remove effects of illumination | June 2005 |
| 20050102080 | Decision enhancement system for a vehicle safety restraint application | May 2005 |
| 20050058322 | System or method for identifying a region-of-interest in an image | March 2005 |
| 20040151344 | Decision enhancement system for a vehicle safety restraint application | August 2004 |
| 20030234519 | System or method for selecting classifier attribute types | December 2003 |
| 20030135346 | Occupant labeling for airbag-related applications (pdf) | July 2003 |
| 20030133595 | Motion based segmenter for occupant tracking using a Hausdorf distance heuristic (pdf) | July 2003 |
| 20030123704 | Motion-based image segmenter for occupant tracking (pdf) | July 2003 |
| 20030031345 | Image segmentation system and method (pdf) | February 2003 |
| 20030016845 | Image processing system for dynamic suppression of airbags using multiple model likelihoods to infer three-dimensional information (pdf) | January 2003 |