Method and apparatus for monitoring status of persons in a vehicle
AssigneeAtsr Limited
InventorsEric Gallagher, Valdas Bockus, Colm Loughnane
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for monitoring the status of a person in the vicinity of a vehicle, including capturing an image of an area in the vehicle or in the vicinity of the vehicle, analysing the captured image, detecting if the captured image contains a person, determining at a first time a characteristic associated with the person in the captured image, comparing the characteristic with a predefined threshold value; and in response to the determined parameter surpassing the predefined threshold value, actuating a change of state of the vehicle. The characteristic may comprise temperature.
Claims14
A method comprising the steps of:
- capturing an image of an area in the vicinity of a vehicle;
- analysing the captured image;
- detecting if the captured image contains a person;
- determining at a first time a first temperature associated with the person in the captured image;
- determining, at a second time, a second temperature associated with the person in the captured image;
- determining a rate of change of temperature of the person based at least on the first temperature and the second temperature;
- comparing the determined rate of change of temperature with a predefined threshold rate of change of temperature value;
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- in response to the determined rate of change of temperature value surpassing the predefined threshold rate of change of temperature value, altering the ambient temperature on board the vehicle in real time.
A system, comprising:
- an image capture device configured for capturing an image of an area in the vicinity of a vehicle;
- an image analysing means configured for analysing the captured image, wherein the image analysing means is configured for detecting a person in the captured image, wherein the image analysing means is further configured to determine a first temperature associated with the person at a first time and a second temperature associated with the person at a second time;
- a memory storing at least a first predefined temperature rate of change value;
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- a processor configured to determine a rate of change of temperature of the person based at least on the first temperature and the second temperature, and compare the determined rate of change of temperature with the predefined threshold temperature rate of change value, wherein the processor is configured to adjust the ambient temperature on board the vehicle in real time in response to the determined rate of change of temperature surpassing the predefined threshold temperature rate of change value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.