US 2015/0143913 A1 · MULTI-MODAL SENSING FOR VEHICLE

Abstract

Apparatuses and methods for detecting hidden or modified objects in a vehicle are disclosed. Embodiments include detection of vehicle irregularities, such as irregularities in the acoustical response of a vehicle tire as the tire rolls over a surface, irregularities in the orientation of the vehicle body, the response of a vehicle component (such as an axle, wheel, tire, etc.) to the vehicle moving over a surface, and the response of a vehicle component to vehicle generated vibrations. In alternate embodiments subsystems detecting different irregularities communicate with one another.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

a system that utilizes information from two or more subsystems and detects irregularities in a vehicle, wherein said two or more subsystems are selected from the group consisting of subsystems A, B, C, and D;
wherein subsystem A analyzes the acoustical response of a tire as the tire rolls over a surface;
wherein subsystem B analyzes one or more characteristics of a vehicle by analyzing at least one image of the vehicle;
wherein subsystem C analyzes the response of a vehicle component to the vehicle moving over a surface;
and
wherein subsystem D analyzes the response of a vehicle component to vehicle-generated vibrations.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/747,005Filed 22 Jan 2013

Priority

19 Jan 2012

Published

28 May 2015

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

G01N 33/227
Fuels; Explosives: explosives, e.g. combustive properties thereof
G06V 20/52
Context or environment of the image: surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects
G01H 1/00
Measuring characteristics of vibrations in solids by using direct conduction to the
G01H 9/00
Measuring mechanical vibrations or ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves by using radiation-sensitive

Multi-modal sensing for vehicle

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Multi-modal sensing for vehicle

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Abstract

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