US 11,724,690 B2
Advanced passenger safety for an autonomous vehicle
Hemant Kavadia, San Francisco, CA (US); Nishant Sharma, San Francisco, CA (US); and Abhishek Jain, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/515,953.
Application 17/515,953 is a continuation of application No. 16/410,444, filed on May 13, 2019, granted, now 11,161,500.
Prior Publication US 2022/0055613 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60W 30/08 (2012.01); G05B 17/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01)
CPC B60W 30/08 (2013.01) [B60W 50/0097 (2013.01); G05B 17/02 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 20/593 (2022.01); B60R 11/04 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0003 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0028 (2013.01); B60W 2400/00 (2013.01); B60W 2420/42 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30196 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30268 (2013.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for improving passenger safety, comprising:
at least one memory; and
at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory, the at least one processor configured to:
collect, via an interior sensor system, passenger occupancy data for an autonomous vehicle (AV), wherein the passenger occupancy data comprises indications of where each of one or more passengers is positioned within the AV;
calculate a crash severity metric for each of a plurality of driving actions that the AV can take at a future time; and
rank each of the plurality of driving actions based on the associated crash severity metric, and wherein the crash severity metric for each of the plurality of driving actions is based on the passenger occupancy data.