Driver recognition to control vehicle systems
AssigneeMicron Technology, Inc.
InventorsMichael Tex Burk, Robert Richard Noel Bielby
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Abstract
A driver recognition system of a vehicle identifies a person approaching the vehicle as a driver or other user. In one approach, the driver recognition system collects data using one or more cameras of the vehicle. The collected data corresponds to the person approaching the vehicle. Based on the collected data, a computing device determines (e.g., using a machine-learning model) whether the person is a user (e.g., driver) associated with the vehicle. If the person is a user associated with the vehicle, then the computing device causes one or more actions to be performed for the vehicle (e.g., controller configuration, boot up of a computing device, updating software using over-the-air update, etc.).
Claims20
A method comprising:
- collecting data using at least one camera of a vehicle, wherein the collected data corresponds to a first and a second person that are approaching the vehicle;
- signaling, by the camera based on the collected data, a processing device of the vehicle;
- in response to the signaling, determining, by the processing device, a context associated with the first and the second person;
- determining, by the processing device based on the collected data, whether the first person is a user associated with the vehicle, wherein the determining comprises determining that the first person is closer to a driver's door of the vehicle than the second person, and then comparing a behavior of the first person to user data stored in a user database for users of vehicles, and wherein the determining further comprises using a machine-learning model for which the behavior of the first person and the context are inputs, and wherein an output of the model is used to identify a first user in the user database;
- and
- in response to determining that the first person is a user associated with the vehicle, performing at least one action for the vehicle.
A system comprising:
- at least one camera;
- memory configured to store a user database of users authorized to operate a vehicle;
- at least one processing device;
- and
- memory containing instructions configured to instruct the at least one processing device to:
- collect data using the at least one camera, wherein the collected data corresponds to a first and a second person that are approaching the vehicle;
- determine, based on the collected data, that the first person is closer to a driver's door of the vehicle than the second person, and is a first user in the user database;
- and
- in response to determining that the first person is the first user, perform at least one action for the vehicle.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed on a computing device, cause the computing device to at least:
- collect data using at least one camera, wherein the collected data corresponds to a first and a second person that are approaching a vehicle;
- determine, based on the collected data, whether the first person is closer to a driver's door of the vehicle than the second person, and is a user associated with the vehicle;
- and
- in response to determining that the first person is a user associated with the vehicle, perform at least one action for the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.