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US 11,900,699 B2Granted
Method and device for monitoring a passenger of a vehicle, and system for analyzing the perception of objects
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorThorben Günzel
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for monitoring a passenger of a vehicle in which the geographic position of the vehicle is recorded, and a viewing direction of the passenger is recorded by means of a eye-tracking device. A data memory is accessed in which objects and geographic positions assigned to them are saved and, by using the recorded geographic position of the vehicle, it is detected whether one of the objects is located in the environment of the vehicle, and whether the object in the environment of the vehicle was perceived by the passenger depending on the recorded viewing direction of the passenger, the recorded geographic position of the vehicle, and the geographic position of the detected object in the environment of the vehicle.
Claims20
A method for monitoring at least a passenger of a vehicle comprising:
- detecting a geographic position of the vehicle;
- detecting a viewing direction of the passenger by an eye-tracking device;
- accessing a data memory in which objects and geographic positions assigned to them are saved and, by using the detected geographic position of the vehicle, determining whether one of the objects is located in the environment of the vehicle;
- determining, depending on the detected viewing direction of the passenger, the detected geographic position of the vehicle, and the geographic position of the determined object in the environment of the vehicle, whether the object in the environment of the vehicle was perceived by the passenger;
- detecting whether informational content is output by the detected object;
- in case informational content is output by the detected object:
- determining recognition data on the output informational content;
- recording a conversation between passengers of the vehicle using a microphone in the interior of the vehicle during one or more of:
- while the informational content is being output and a time interval after the informational content is being output;
- conducting an analysis of the recorded conversation;
- and
- verifying, by using the analysis and the determined recognition data of the informational content, whether the output informational content was perceived by the passenger of the vehicle.
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A device for monitoring at least a passenger of a vehicle, comprising:
- a position detecting circuit for detecting a geographic position of the vehicle;
- an eye-tracking device for detecting a viewing direction of the passenger;
- an interface for accessing a data memory in which objects and geographic positions assigned to them are saved;
- and
- an analytics circuit that, by using the recorded geographic position of the vehicle, is configured to:
- determine whether one of the objects is located in the environment of the vehicle, and furthermore to determine whether the object in the environment of the vehicle was perceived by the passenger depending on a detected viewing direction of the passenger, a detected geographic position of the vehicle, and a geographic position of a determined object in the environment of the vehicle
- detect whether informational content is output by the detected object;
- in case informational content is output by the detected object:
- determine recognition data on the output informational content;
- record a conversation between passengers of the vehicle using a microphone in the interior of the vehicle during one or more of:
- while the informational content is being output and a time interval after the informational content is being output;
- conduct an analysis of the recorded conversation;
- and
- verify, by using the analysis and the determined recognition data of the informational content, whether the output informational content was perceived by the passenger of the vehicle.
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A method for monitoring a passenger of a vehicle comprising:
- detecting a geographic position of the vehicle;
- detecting a viewing direction of the passenger by an eye-tracking device;
- accessing a data memory in which objects and geographic positions assigned to them are saved and, by using the detected geographic position of the vehicle, determining whether one of the objects is located in the environment of the vehicle;
- determining, depending on the detected viewing direction of the passenger, the detected geographic position of the vehicle, and the geographic position of the determined object in the environment of the vehicle, whether the object in the environment of the vehicle was perceived by the passenger;
- detecting whether informational content was output by the detected object;
- determining recognition data on the output informational content;
- recording a conversation between passengers of the vehicle using a microphone in the interior of the vehicle, at least while the informational content is being output, or for a time interval afterward;
- conducting an analysis of the recorded conversation that was held while or for a time interval after the informational content was output;
- and
- detecting, by using the conversation analysis and the recorded recognition data of the informational content output during or before the conversation, whether the output informational content was perceived by a passenger of the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.