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Risk situations for vehicle occupants based on data provided by vehicle sensors and contextual information

  • US 10,274,338 B2
  • Filed: 12/11/2016
  • Issued: 04/30/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for improving risk situations for vehicle occupants in a vehicle comprising the steps of;

  • configuring a set of circumstances where each circumstances is a condition of a time, a place or a manner that accompanies or influences an event or a person;

    defining a set of values for each circumstance where each value has a rate;

    collecting context information for the circumstances, values and rates;

    collecting by vehicle sensors, real-time sensor measurements pertaining to a vehicle, a driver and vehicle occupants;

    retrieving risk patterns from a risk pattern database;

    matching the sensor measurements to the risk patterns to find a matching risk pattern having a risk similarity value;

    contextualizing the matching risk pattern by increasing the risk similarity value to result in a personalized risk value;

    comparing the personalized risk value to a threshold; and

    autonomously executing by the vehicle a context modifying action to lower the personalized risk value when the personalized risk value exceeds a predefined threshold wherein the context modifying action is a personalized action performed by the vehicle to take over and autonomously execute the personalized action with respect to the vehicle occupants or the vehicle that decreases the personalized risk value below the predefined threshold.

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