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US 10,860,872 B2Granted
Virtual vehicle occupant rendering
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsNanxin Wang, Jian Wan, Gary Steven Strumolo
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Abstract
Image data of a vehicle occupant are collected from a plurality of cameras. A dimensional model of substantially an entire body of the vehicle occupant is generated based on the image data. A gesture performed by the vehicle occupant is recognized based on the dimensional model. A vehicle subsystem is adjusted based on the gesture.
Claims16
A system, comprising a computer including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the computer to:
- collect image data of substantially an entire body of a vehicle operator and substantially an entire body of a vehicle passenger from a plurality of cameras;
- generate a dimensional model of substantially the entire body of the vehicle operator and a second dimensional model of substantially the entire body of the vehicle passenger based on the image data;
- identify a right hand of the vehicle operator and a left hand of the vehicle passenger based on the dimensional models;
- based on the dimensional models of the vehicle operator and the vehicle passenger, recognize a gesture performed by one of the right hand of the vehicle operator or the left hand of the vehicle passenger;
- based on the gesture, accept, input to a vehicle human-machine interface from the left hand of the vehicle passenger and ignore input to the vehicle human-machine interface from the right hand of the vehicle operator;
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- adjust a vehicle subsystem based on the gesture.
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A method, comprising:
- collecting image data of substantially an entire body of a vehicle operator and substantially an entire body of a vehicle passenger from a plurality of cameras;
- generating a dimensional model of substantially the entire body of the vehicle operator and a second dimensional model of substantially the entire body of the vehicle passenger based on the image data;
- identifying a right hand of the vehicle operator and a left hand of the vehicle passenger based on the dimensional models;
- based on the dimensional models of the vehicle operator and the vehicle passenger, recognizing a gesture performed by one of the right hand of the vehicle operator or the left hand of the vehicle passenger;
- based on the gesture, accepting input to a vehicle human-machine interface from the left hand of the vehicle passenger and ignoring input to the vehicle human-machine interface from the right hand of the vehicle operator;
- and
- adjust a vehicle subsystem based on the gesture.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.