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US 9,472,102 B2Granted
Adaptive emergency brake and steer assist systems based on driver focus
AssigneeContinental Automotive Systems, Inc.
InventorsJeremy Jason McClain, Zachary Joseph Bolton
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Abstract
An automotive vehicle includes a driver analyzer and a driver assistance system, both of which are coupled to a controller. The controller includes a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions for causing the controller to determine a level of attentiveness of a driver of the automotive vehicle and to adapt a response of the driver assistance system in response to the determined level of attentiveness.
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An automotive vehicle comprising:
- a driver analyzer communicatively coupled to a controller;
- a driver assistance system communicatively coupled to the controller;
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- the controller including a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions for causing the controller to determine a level of attentiveness of a driver of the automotive vehicle and to adapt a response of the driver assistance system in response to the determined level of attentiveness and in response to at least one condition external to the vehicle, the condition external to the vehicle being an environmental condition affecting at least one of a last point to brake and a last point to steer, and wherein adapting the response of the driver assistance system includes loading one of a plurality of collision avoidance charts including at least a last point to brake data entry and a last point to steer data entry, each of said collision avoidance charts being distinct and corresponding to at least one environmental condition.
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A method of controlling an automotive vehicle comprising:
- determining a level of a driver's attentiveness by interpreting data from a driver analyzer using a controller;
- identifying a specific driver using the controller based on data from the driver analyzer, at least in part by identifying the specific driver using facial recognition;
- loading a specific driver profile from a controller memory, the specific driver profile corresponding to the identified specific driver;
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- adjusting a response of a driver assistance system based at least partially on the driver's level of attentiveness and at least partially on at least one condition external to the vehicle, the condition external to the vehicle being an environmental condition affecting at least one of a last point to brake and a last point to steer, and
- wherein adjusting the response of the driver assistance system includes loading one of a plurality of collision avoidance charts including at least a last point to brake data entry and a last point to steer data entry, each of said collision avoidance charts being distinct chart and corresponding to at least one environmental condition.
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A method of controlling an automotive vehicle comprising:
- determining a level of a driver's attentiveness by interpreting data from a driver analyzer using a controller;
- adjusting a response of a driver assistance system based at least partially on the driver's level of attentiveness;
- loading a collision avoidance chart using said driver assistance system, wherein the collision avoidance chart includes compensation for at least one condition external to the vehicle;
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- wherein adjusting a response of a driver assistance system based at least partially on the driver's level of attentiveness comprises adjusting at least one of a warning point, brake point, steering point, warning intensity and warning location in response to a determined level of driver attentiveness.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.