US 2026/0301429 A1 · REAL-TIME OCCUPANT IDENTIFICATION USING FACIAL RECOGNITION IN AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS

Abstract

The techniques described herein relate to a system including: a vehicle environment that includes a camera on a windshield of a vehicle and a processor in the vehicle, the vehicle environment configured to: determine that a vehicle speed value of the vehicle exceeds a first threshold and that a vehicle stop duration exceeds a time threshold, capture a plurality of facial images, and transmit the plurality of facial images; and a cloud platform including one or more computing devices, the computing devices of the cloud platform configured to: receive the plurality of facial images, generate confidence scores for each facial image compared against stored driver profiles, compute based on the confidence scores, a vote count and an average score for a candidate driver profile, and assign a driver identifier to a vehicle based on the vote count and average score exceeding respective thresholds.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a vehicle environment comprising a vehicle that includes a camera on a windshield of the vehicle and a processor installed within the vehicle, the vehicle environment configured to:
determine, by the processor, that a vehicle speed value of the vehicle exceeds a first threshold and that a vehicle stop duration exceeds a time threshold,
capture, by the camera, a plurality of facial images, and
transmit, by the processor, the plurality of facial images;
and
a cloud platform comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices of the cloud platform configured to:
receive the plurality of facial images,
generate confidence scores for each facial image compared against stored driver profiles,
compute based on the confidence scores, a vote count and an average score for a candidate driver profile, and
assign a driver identifier to a vehicle based on the vote count and average score exceeding respective thresholds.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for tangibly storing computer program instructions capable of being executed by a computer processor, the computer program instructions defining steps of:

determining, by a processor of a vehicle, that a vehicle speed value of the vehicle exceeds a first threshold and that a vehicle stop duration exceeds a time threshold;
capturing, by a camera on a windshield of the vehicle, a plurality of facial images;
generating, by a cloud platform, confidence scores for each facial image compared against stored driver profiles;
computing, at the cloud platform, based on the confidence scores, a vote count and an average score for a candidate driver profile;
and
assigning, by the cloud platform, a driver identifier to a vehicle based on the vote count and average score exceeding respective thresholds.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Real-time occupant identification using facial recognition in automotive systems

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Real-time occupant identification using facial recognition in automotive systems

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Abstract

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