US 11,676,425 B2
System and method for speech recognition for occupancy detection in high occupancy toll applications
Jaime Andres Borras, Miramar, FL (US); and Wyatt Drake Geist, Davie, FL (US)
Assigned to GEOTOLL, INC., Cooper City, FL (US)
Filed by GEOTOLL, INC., Cooper City, FL (US)
Filed on Mar. 8, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/297,211.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/640,178, filed on Mar. 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0279437 A1, Sep. 12, 2019
Int. Cl. G07B 15/06 (2011.01); G06Q 50/30 (2012.01); G06F 16/68 (2019.01); G06F 16/683 (2019.01)
CPC G07B 15/06 (2013.01) [G06F 16/685 (2019.01); G06Q 50/30 (2013.01); G06Q 2240/00 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for splitting a vehicular toll among a plurality of occupants of a vehicle, comprising:
a mobile device, in response to executing a tolling application program, determining that the mobile device is paired with a vehicle audio system and that the mobile device has received information from another mobile device in a bump operation; responsive to determining that the mobile device is paired with the vehicle audio system and further in response to executing the tolling application program, the mobile device verifying that a first person is present in the vehicle by prompting a first person to speak a pre-selected utterance and the mobile device recording a voice of the first person speaking the pre-selected utterance;
responsive to determining that the bump operation has occurred, and further in response to executing the tolling application program, the mobile device verifying that a second person is present in the vehicle by prompting a second person to speak the pre-selected utterance and the mobile device recording the voice of the second person speaking the pre-selected utterance;
further in response to executing the tolling application program, the mobile device creating a first voice print from the recording of the voice of the first person and a second voice print from the recording of the voice of the second person;
further in response to executing the tolling application program, identifying the first person based on the first voice print, and identifying the second person based on the second voice print;
further in response to executing the tolling application program, the mobile device transmitting, responsive to identifying the first person and identifying the second person, to a tolling service server by the mobile device via a cellular network, the identity of the first person and the identity of the second person, wherein the first person is associated with a first tolling account and the second person is associated with a second tolling account of a tolling agency that operates the tolling service server;
receiving, at the tolling service server from a toll reader, an indication that the vehicle has passed the toll reader;
and in response to receiving the indication that the vehicle has passed the toll reader, the tolling service server apportioning a toll fee among the first and second tolling accounts.