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Heating system for heating a living being

  • US 9,873,308 B2
  • Filed: 01/17/2013
  • Issued: 01/23/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A heating system, comprising:

  • an infrared laser system including one or more infrared lasers disposed in a vehicle and configured to illuminate and heat a living being disposed within the vehicle with infrared laser light, wherein the illuminating of the living being with the infrared laser light is confined to a location of the living being by a collimation of the infrared laser light; and

    a control unit configured to control the infrared laser system in response to a presence signal indicating the presence of the living being within the vehicle such that the living being is illuminatable by the infrared laser light from the one or more infrared lasers,wherein the presence signal is generated in response to an image produced from infrared light reflected from the living being in response to the infrared laser light,wherein the heating system is configured to detect predefined regions of the living being from the image by performing comparisons of the image with known shapes of the predefined regions, and to direct the infrared laser light to the predefined regions of the living being which are detected from the image.

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