US 2026/0073705 A1Published application

Systems and methods for identifying missing vehicles and people utilizing vehicle’s onboard camera images and data

AssigneeAdeia Guides Inc.

InventorsToshiro Ozawa, Jean-Yves Couleaud, Tao Chen

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Abstract

Systems and methods are provided herein for using data collected by vehicles to complete tasks. For example, a service provider may receive a request for information related to a missing vehicle. The request may also include characteristics (e.g., license plate number, make, model, color, year, last-known location, etc.) related to the missing vehicle. The service provider may generate an agent associated with the request and send the agent to a plurality of vehicles. The plurality of vehicles may use sensors (e.g., cameras), the agent, and the characteristics of the missing vehicle, to identify information (e.g., images) relating to the missing vehicle. The plurality of vehicles may then send the information (e.g., images) relating to the missing vehicle to the service provider and the service provider generates a report using the received information.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, by a server, a request for information related to a missing vehicle from a first device;
identifying, by the server, an agent associated with the request;
transmitting, by the server, a notification to a first vehicle indicating a task related to the request, wherein the first vehicle comprises a plurality of sensors;
in response to receiving the notification, requesting, by the first vehicle, the agent associated with the request;
receiving, by the first vehicle, the agent associated with the request;
collecting, by the first vehicle, a plurality of images using the plurality of sensors;
analyzing, by the first vehicle, the plurality of images using the agent;
identifying, by the first vehicle, a first image of the plurality of images using the agent associated with the request, wherein the first image comprises a depiction of the missing vehicle;
transmitting, by the first vehicle, the first image comprising the depiction of the missing vehicle to the server;
generating, by the server, a report comprising the first image comprising the depiction of the missing vehicle;
and
transmitting, by the server, the report to the first device.

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An apparatus comprising:

control circuitry;
and
at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the control circuitry, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
receive a request for information related to a missing vehicle from a first device;
identify an agent associated with the request;
transmit a notification to a first vehicle indicating a task related to the request, wherein the first vehicle comprises a plurality of sensors;
receive a second notification from the first vehicle, wherein the second notification requests the agent associated with the request;
transmit the agent associated with the request to the first vehicle, wherein transmitting the agent causes the first vehicle to:
analyze a plurality of images using the agent, wherein the plurality of images are collected by the first vehicle using the plurality of sensors;
and
identify a first image of the plurality of images using the agent, wherein the first image comprises a depiction of the missing vehicle;
receive the first image comprising the depiction of the missing vehicle from the first vehicle;
generate a report comprising the first image comprising the depiction of the missing vehicle;
and
transmit the report to the first device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.