US 12,406,523 B2
Computer-implemented method for analysing the interior of a vehicle
Michael Hödlmoser, Schörfling (AT); Sebastian Beyer, Vienna (AT); and Florian Seitner, Vienna (AT)
Assigned to emotion3D GmbH, Vienna (AT)
Appl. No. 18/021,575
Filed by emotion3D GmbH, Vienna (AT)
PCT Filed Jul. 14, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/069627
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 16, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/037853, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 24, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 50693/2020 (AT), filed on Aug. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0316783 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G06V 40/10 (2022.01); B60N 2/02 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 20/64 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 40/103 (2022.01) [B60N 2/02 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06V 20/593 (2022.01); G06V 20/64 (2022.01); G06V 40/172 (2022.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30196 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30242 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30268 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for determining features of the interior of a vehicle with at least one image capturing unit, a data processing unit and a database, comprising the following steps:
a. capturing, by the image capturing unit, a photo or video of the interior and transmitting it to the data processing unit,
b. analysing of the photo or video, in the data processing unit, by a sequential data processing chain of hierarchically arranged program modules, comprising the steps of
i. performing an analysis to localise persons and objects for generating body and object images,
c. applying one or more image processing algorithms on the body and object images for extracting therefrom body and object data of the localised persons, the object data comprising at least one of:
body height,
body weight,
age,
sex,
a body joint model,
body posture,
object size,
object weight, and
object colour,
d. storing, by the data processing unit, of the determined body and object data in a hierarchical data model comprising data objects in the database, wherein the data objects of the hierarchical data model are stored in a hierarchically structured text file in the data processing unit, and
e. using the hierarchical data model by external program modules to determine whether positions of the localised objects relative to the localised persons in the interior of the vehicle create one or more potential safety risks during vehicle operation; and
f. activating one or more warning units when the one or more potential safety risks are detected.