VEHICLE OCCUPANT EMERGENCY SYSTEM

• US 20160303969A1
• Filed: 04/16/2015
• Published: 10/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Akula, Sneha
• Granted Patent: US 9,522,598 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/22 Motor vehicles operators, e.g. drivers, pilots, captains
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02042 Determining blood loss or bleeding, e.g. during a surgical procedure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0816 Measuring devices for examining respiratory frequency measuring frequency of electric signals G01R23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/18 for vehicle drivers or machine operators
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/486 Bio-feedback A61B5/375 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6893 Cars
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/747 in case of emergency, i.e. alerting emergency services
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7475 User input or interface means, e.g. keyboard, pointing device, joystick
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3407 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0088 characterized by the autonomous decision making process, e.g. artificial intelligence, predefined behaviours using knowledge based models G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A system may include a user interface, a transmitter, a processor, and a memory having a program communicatively connected to the processor. The processor may be configured to receive a body sensor output associated with an occupant of a vehicle, receive a vehicle sensor output associated with the vehicle, compare the body and vehicle sensor outputs with a threshold, prompt for a confirmation associated with at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs, determine an issue type based on at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs, and send a notification including the issue type.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a user interface;

a processor and a memory having a program communicatively connected to the processor, the processor being configured to;

receive a body sensor output associated with an occupant of a vehicle;

receive a vehicle sensor output associated with the vehicle;

compare, using the processor, at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs with a threshold;

prompt, using the user interface, for a confirmation associated with at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs;

determine, using the processor, an issue type based on at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs;

send a notification including the issue type;

receive a facility list having a medical capability and a facility location for a plurality of facilities;

select, using the processor, one of the plurality of facilities from the facility list based in part on a comparison between the medical issue and the medical capability of at least a portion of the plurality of facilities; and

determine, using the processor, a route to the selected one of the plurality of facility.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the issue type includes a medical issue associated with the occupant.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the issue type further includes a vehicle issue associated with the vehicle.

5. The system of claim 1, the processor further being configured to instruct a vehicle computer of the vehicle to change from a current driving mode to an autonomous driving mode.

6. The system of claim 1, the processor further being configured to instruct a vehicle computer of the vehicle to drive the vehicle to the selected facility based on the determined route.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the notification includes the issue type and is sent to at least one of a facility and an emergency vehicle.

4. (canceled)

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium tangibly embodying computer-executable instructions of a program being executable by a processor of a computing device to provide operations comprising:

receive a body sensor output associated with an occupant of a vehicle;

receive a vehicle sensor output associated with the vehicle;

compare, using the processor, the body and vehicle sensor outputs with a threshold;

prompt, using the user interface, for a confirmation associated with the body and vehicle sensor outputs;

determine, using the processor, an issue type based on the body and vehicle sensor outputs;

send a notification including the issue type;

receive a facility list having a medical capability and a facility location for a plurality of facilities;

select one of the plurality of facilities from the facility list based in part on a comparison between the medical issue and the medical capability of at least a portion of the plurality of facilities; and

determine a route to the selected one of the plurality of facilities.

9. The medium of claim 8, wherein the issue type includes a medical issue associated with the occupant.

10. The medium of claim 9, wherein the issue type further includes a vehicle issue associated with the vehicle.

12. The medium of claim 8, the operations further comprising instruct a vehicle computer of the vehicle to change from a current driving mode to an autonomous driving mode.

13. The medium of claim 8, the operations further comprising instruct a vehicle computer of the vehicle to drive the vehicle to the selected facility based on the determined route.

14. The medium of claim 8, wherein the notification includes the issue type and is sent to at least one of a facility and an emergency vehicle.

11. (canceled)

15. A method comprising:

receiving a body sensor output associated with an occupant of a vehicle;

receiving a vehicle sensor output associated with the vehicle;

comparing, by way of a processor, at least one of the vehicle and body sensor outputs with a threshold;

prompting, by way of a user interface, for a confirmation associated with the at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs;

determining, by way of the processor, an issue type based on at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs;

sending a notification including the issue type;

receiving a facility list having a medical capability and a facility location for a plurality of facilities;

selecting, using a processor, one of the plurality of facilities from the facility list based in part on a comparison between the medical issue and the medical capability of at least a portion of the plurality of facilities; and

determining, without human intervention, a route to the selected one of the plurality of facilities.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the issue type includes a medical issue associated with the occupant.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the issue type further includes a vehicle issue associated with the vehicle.

19. The method of claim 15, the method further comprising instructing the vehicle to change from a current driving mode to an autonomous driving mode.

20. The method of claim 15, the method further comprising instructing a vehicle computer of the vehicle to drive the vehicle to the selected facility based on the determined route.

18. (canceled)