Abstract: A device for the detection of an object on a vehicle seat, including a camera and a processing unit for the generation of a two-dimensional representation of the object is provided. The device also includes at least two illumination sources, which are positioned in such a manner that the object can be illuminated from different directions, and the processing unit is suitable to generate a three-dimensional representation of the object from two dimensional representations, each generated under different illumination conditions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating a computed digital image of a scene, which can be illuminated with different luminous intensities at a first illumination angle by a first light source. An image sensor records a number of individual images of the scene under different lighting conditions, and these images are set against one another in a pixel-by-pixel manner in a data processing device in order to generate a resulting image. The invention is characterized in that at least one additional light source is provided by means of which the scene can be illuminated at an illumination angle that is different from the illumination angle of the first light source. The different lighting conditions when recording the individual images are obtained by various combinations of luminous intensities of the first and of the at least one other additional light source. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the inventive method.