	US 12,263,869 B2
	Medical emergency detection in-vehicle caretaker
Akila C. Ganlath, Mountain View, CA (US); Rohit Gupta, Mountain View, CA (US); Paul Li, Mountain View, CA (US); Ziran Wang, Mountain View, CA (US); Kyungtae Han, Mountain View, CA (US); Nejib Ammar, Mountain View, CA (US); and Satoshi Nagashima, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota (JP); and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/725,297.
Prior Publication US 2023/0339508 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01)

CPC B60W 60/0016 (2020.02) [B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 60/005 (2020.02); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); B60W 2040/0818 (2013.01); B60W 2540/221 (2020.02); B60W 2540/229 (2020.02); B60W 2556/50 (2020.02)]

20 Claims

1. A method executed by a processor, the method comprising:

determining, by the processor, that a driver of an ego vehicle is experiencing a debilitating medical condition;

overriding a protocol to decrease an autonomy level of the ego vehicle responsive to inattentiveness of the driver to a driving interface of the ego vehicle so that the driver can be inattentive to the driving interface and the autonomy level is not decreased; and

modifying an operation of an autonomous driving system of the ego vehicle to increase the autonomy level of the ego vehicle to decrease a driving responsibility of the driver responsive to the debilitating medical condition.