METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING ATTENTION DATA FROM A VEHICLE

• US 20150235538A1
• Filed: 02/14/2014
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GM Global Operations LLC
• Original Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: KONIGSBERG, AMIR, TRON, EVIATAR, GOLAN, GIL
• Application Number:
  US14/181,316
• Publication Number:
  US 20150235538A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/163 by tracking eye movement, gaze, or pupil change
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/18 for vehicle drivers or machine operators
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6893 Cars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/597 Recognising the driver's state or behaviour, e.g. attention or drowsiness
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons

Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for processing attention data. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving the attention data from a first vehicle, wherein the attention data indicates an attention of an occupant of the vehicle to a point in a space; processing, at a global processing system, the received attention data with other attention data to determine one or more statistics; and generating report data based on the one or more statistics.

Claims

1. A method of processing attention data, comprising:

receiving the attention data from a first vehicle, wherein the attention data indicates an attention of an occupant of the vehicle to a point in a space;

processing, at a global processing system, the received attention data with other attention data to determine one or more statistics; and

generating report data based on the one or more statistics.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the attention data indicates the attention of the occupant to an object that is located at the point in the space at a time.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the attention data further indicates contextual data at the time.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the attention data further indicates at least one of a vehicle identifier and an occupant identifier.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the other attention data is received from the first vehicle.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the other attention data is received from at least one other vehicle.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the statistics comprise a frequency of attention to the point in the space.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the statistics comprise at least one global point of interest that indicates a point identified by at least one of a number of occupants of the first vehicle and a number of times by the first occupant.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the statistics comprise at least one global point of interest that indicates a point identified by a number of vehicles.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the statistics comprise contextual conditions associated with particular points.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the statistics comprise spatter of the occupant.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the statistics comprise contextual data associated with the spatter.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the statistics comprise similarities between the attention of the first occupant and an attention of other occupants.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating the report data to the vehicle.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating the report data to another vehicle.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating the report data to a business entity.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the report data includes a probability of pursuing actions that relate to the attention given to the point.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the report data includes a point or object that is identified as having a potential to distract occupants.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the report data is according to a graphical format.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the report data is according to at least one of a text format and a data format.

21. A system for processing attention data, comprising:

a first module that receives the attention data from a first vehicle, wherein the attention data indicates an attention of an occupant of the vehicle to a point in a space;

a second module that processes the received attention data with other attention data to determine one or more statistics; and

a third module that generates report data based on the one or more statistics.