Accident avoidance system for pedestrians
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKYLE GILBERTSON, BLAIR WYMAN, JIM COON, CARY M. HUETTNER, IGAR SHEPELEV, AARON C. EVANS
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Abstract
Examples of techniques for pedestrian accident avoidance are disclosed. Aspects include receiving, by a processor from a first sensor, an indication that a user is moving and activating, by the processor, a second sensor responsive to receiving the indication. Aspects also include detecting, via the second sensor, an obstacle in a path of the user and providing an alert to the user of the obstacle.
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A method for pedestrian accident avoidance, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a processor from a first sensor, an indication that a user is moving, wherein the indication includes a direction and a speed that the user is moving;
- activating, by the processor, a second sensor responsive to receiving the indication, wherein the second sensor includes an adjustable field of view and wherein activating the second sensor includes setting the adjustable field of view based on the direction and the speed that the user is moving;
- detecting, via the second sensor, an obstacle in a path of the user;
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- providing an alert to the user of the obstacle,
- wherein a field of view of the second sensor is an area covered by the second sensor and wherein setting the adjustable field of view includes adjusting an aperture of the second sensor to control a size and a direction of the area scanned by the second sensor.
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A user device for pedestrian accident avoidance comprising:
- a memory comprising computer readable instructions;
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- a processing device for executing the computer readable instructions for performing a method for enhanced teleconferencing, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a processor from a first sensor, an indication that a user is moving, wherein the indication includes a direction and a speed that the user is moving;
- activating, by the processor, a second sensor responsive to receiving the indication, wherein the second sensor includes an adjustable field of view and wherein activating the second sensor includes setting the adjustable field of view based on the direction and the speed that the user is moving;
- detecting, via the second sensor, an obstacle in a path of the user;
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- providing an alert to the user of the obstacle,
- wherein a field of view of the second sensor is an area covered by the second sensor and wherein setting the adjustable field of view includes adjusting an aperture of the second sensor to control a size and a direction of the area scanned by the second sensor.
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A computer program product comprising:
- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processing device to cause the processing device to perform a method for enhanced teleconferencing, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a processor from a first sensor, an indication that a user is moving, wherein the indication includes a direction and a speed that the user is moving;
- activating, by the processor, a second sensor responsive to receiving the indication, wherein the second sensor includes an adjustable field of view and wherein activating the second sensor includes setting the adjustable field of view based on the direction and the speed that the user is moving;
- detecting, via the second sensor, an obstacle in a path of the user;
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- providing an alert to the user of the obstacle,
- wherein a field of view of the second sensor is an area covered by the second sensor and wherein setting the adjustable field of view includes adjusting an aperture of the second sensor to control a size and a direction of the area scanned by the second sensor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.