US 11,989,949 B1
Systems for detecting vehicle following distance
Joy Mazumder, Etobicoke (CA); Shashank Saurav, Toronto (CA); Javed Siddique, York (CA); and Mohammed Sohail Siddique, Milton (CA)
Assigned to Geotab Inc., Oakville (CA)
Filed by Geotab Inc., Oakville (CA)
Filed on Jul. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/224,208.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/526,233, filed on Jul. 12, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/456,179, filed on Mar. 31, 2023.
Int. Cl. G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 20/58 (2022.01) [G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for determining a following distance between a first vehicle and a second vehicle, the system comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one non-transitory processor-readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and storing processor-executable instructions which when executed by the at least one processor cause the system to:
access an image including a representation of a first vehicle from a perspective of a second vehicle behind the first vehicle;
determine, by the at least one processor, at least one image attribute based on a positional measure between the first vehicle as represented in the image and at least one boundary of the image; and
apply, by the at least one processor, a following distance determination model to determine the following distance based on the determined at least one image attribute.