US 12,263,860 B2
System for preventing drunk driving and method for controlling the same
Yu Jin Jung, Uiwang-Si (KR); Yeon Su Kim, Gunpo-Si (KR); June Seung Lee, Yongin-Si (KR); and Chang Won Lee, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD., Seoul (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Feb. 28, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/590,156.
Application 18/590,156 is a continuation of application No. 17/877,306, filed on Jul. 29, 2022, granted, now 11,945,461.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0103019 (KR), filed on Aug. 5, 2021; application No. 10-2021-0103021 (KR), filed on Aug. 5, 2021; application No. 10-2021-0103023 (KR), filed on Aug. 5, 2021; and application No. 10-2021-0103030 (KR), filed on Aug. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0199057 A1, Jun. 20, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60K 28/06 (2006.01); B60W 10/06 (2006.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); B60W 50/10 (2012.01); B60W 50/12 (2012.01); G01N 33/497 (2006.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 50/14 (2013.01) [B60K 28/063 (2013.01); B60W 10/06 (2013.01); B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 50/10 (2013.01); B60W 50/12 (2013.01); G01N 33/4972 (2013.01); G06V 20/597 (2022.01); G06V 40/161 (2022.01); B60W 2040/0836 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2540/24 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A drunk driving prevention system comprising:
a camera configured to capture an image of a face of a driver seated in a driver's seat of a vehicle;
a sensor module configured to, during breath-checking of the driver, measure alcohol content in a breath exhaled from the driver; and
a control module configured to:
perform, based on the captured image, the breath-checking;
determine whether the breath-checking is completed,
determine, based on the measured alcohol content, whether the driver is intoxicated; and
determine, based on determining whether the driver is intoxicated, whether to block starting of an engine of the vehicle;
wherein the control module is configured to:
calculate a first estimated breathing period from a change to a shape of a mouth of the driver in the captured image; and
check whether a breath in the captured image matches a breath pulled into the sensor module based on a comparison between the first estimated breathing period and a second estimated breathing period determined from a change to a breath volume pulled in the sensor module to complete the breath-checking.