Driver authentication for vehicle-sharing fleet
AssigneesDENSO International America, Inc., Denso Corporation
InventorsRobert Wunsche, III, Mustafa Mahmoud, Cameron Beyer
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Abstract
A method and system are disclosed and include, in response to a user being located within a vehicle associated with the vehicle-sharing request, obtaining, using a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a nontransitory computer-readable medium, image data corresponding to the user from a camera. The method also includes determining, using the processor, whether the image data corresponds to an image associated with a vehicle-sharing account of the user. The method also includes in response to determining the image data corresponds to the image, enabling, using the processor, the user to activate the vehicle.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- receiving, with a vehicle having an electronic control module with a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a nontransitory computer-readable medium and from a vehicle-sharing service, information of a vehicle-sharing account associated with a user that submitted a vehicle-sharing request to the vehicle-sharing service, the information of the vehicle-sharing account including an image of the user extracted from an image of a user identification card associated with the user that was previously captured using a camera of a portable device of the user and submitted to the vehicle-sharing service while creating the vehicle-sharing account;
- obtaining, using the processor, image data of the user sitting in a driver seat of the vehicle from a camera within the vehicle;
- determining, using the processor, whether the image data obtained by the camera within the vehicle matches the image of the user extracted from the image of the user identification card associated with the user from the received information of the vehicle-sharing account of the user;
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- in response to determining the image data obtained by the camera matches the image of the user extracted from the image of the user identification card, enabling, using the processor, the user to activate the vehicle for the vehicle-sharing request.
A system comprising:
- an electronic control module having a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a nontransitory computer-readable medium, wherein the instructions include:
- receiving information of a vehicle-sharing account associated with a user that submitted a vehicle-sharing request to the vehicle-sharing service, the information of the vehicle-sharing account including an image of the user extracted from an image of a user identification card associated with the user that was previously captured using a camera of a portable device of the user and submitted to the vehicle-sharing service while creating the vehicle-sharing account;
- obtaining image data of the user sitting in a driver seat of the vehicle from a camera within the vehicle;
- determining whether the image data obtained by the camera within the vehicle matches the image of the user extracted from the image of the user identification card associated with the user from the received information of the vehicle-sharing account of the user;
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- in response to determining the image data obtained by the camera matches the image of the user extracted from the image of the user identification card, enabling the user to activate the vehicle for the vehicle-sharing request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.