US 12,472,869 B2
Systems and methods for driver warnings upon child identification and bypass options based on gesture and posture detection
Katsuji Kuno, Echigawa (JP); Babak Bakhtiar, Richmond Hill (CA); and Joshua Ramaglia, Broken Arrow, OK (US)
Assigned to Joyson Safety Systems Acquisition LLC, Auburn Hills, MI (US); and Joyson Safety Systems Japan G.K., Shiga (JP)
Filed by Joyson Safety Systems Acquisition LLC, Auburn Hills, MI (US); and Joyson Safety Systems Japan G.k., Shiga (JP)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/052,759.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/275,942, filed on Nov. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0138431 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01)
CPC B60Q 9/00 (2013.01) [G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 20/597 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A passenger protection system for a vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle control system comprising at least one processor and computerized memory storing vehicle control software therein, wherein the vehicle control software receives input data from a plurality of vehicle sensors;
an imaging system connected to the vehicle control system and gathering image data from an interior of the vehicle, the image data being gathered from pixels of the imaging system corresponding to vehicle occupants and vehicle components within the interior of the vehicle;
a digital control sequence triggered in the software by a presence of at least one occupant in the vehicle, the digital control sequence activating and de-activating an alert system in the vehicle in accordance with a child protection software program stored in the computerized memory, wherein the alert system comprises at least one of an audible alert, a visible alert, or a haptic alert within the vehicle; and
wherein the image data comprises a gesture from the at least one occupant, and the child protection software program interprets the gesture as a command that produces a respective electronic outputs from the digital control sequence to activate, deactivate, and temporarily halt the alert system; and
wherein the digital control sequence uses the input data from the vehicle sensors or the image data to determine that events within the vehicle are progressing toward an occupant leaving the vehicle with a child therein and activates the alarm system.