ENTRAPMENT-RISK RELATED INFORMATION BASED ON VEHICLE DATA

• US 20170046810A1
• Filed: 08/15/2016
• Published: 02/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Inventors: VITET, Stephane
• Application Number:
  US15/236,536
• Publication Number:
  US 20170046810A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/08 Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0816 Indicating performance data, e.g. occurrence of a malfunction

Abstract

A method and system for processing vehicle data to respond to a vehicle crash is provided, vehicle data obtained from at least one vehicle is received. An entrapment-risk parameter indicative of an entrapment risk is estimated based on the vehicle data. Information related to an entrapment risk based on the entrapment-risk parameter is communicated to an emergency response point.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A method of processing vehicle data comprising:

receiving vehicle data obtained from a vehicle that has been involved in at least one impact;

estimating an entrapment-risk parameter indicative of an entrapment risk based on said vehicle data; and

providing entrapment-risk related information based on said entrapment-risk parameter to an emergency response point.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein said vehicle data from which said entrapment-risk parameter is estimated comprises at least one of a vehicle speed parameter indicative of a speed of the vehicle or a time derivative of the vehicle speed parameter, an impact direction parameter indicative of a direction of the impact, an impact number parameter indicative of a number of impacts, a vehicle type parameter indicative of a type of the vehicle, a rollover parameter indicative of a rollover of the vehicle or an occupant parameter indicative of a place occupation within the vehicle.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein said entrapment-risk parameter indicates a likelihood that at least one predetermined rescue tool to extricate at least one occupant from the vehicle.

17. The method according to claim 14, wherein said entrapment-risk parameter is estimated based on a predetermined relation between said vehicle data and said entrapment-risk parameter.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein said relation is predetermined based on a database of past crash events comprising entrapment-related extrication actions and vehicle data of different past crash events.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein said vehicle data is obtained in the event of a crash of the vehicle.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising source code, which when executed on a computer, is configured to carry out the method according to claim 14.

21. A system for processing vehicle data comprising:

means for receiving vehicle data obtained from a vehicle involved in at least one impact;

means for estimating an entrapment-risk parameter indicative of an entrapment risk based on said vehicle data; and

means for providing entrapment-risk related information based on said entrapment-risk parameter to an emergency response point.

22. The according to claim 21, wherein said vehicle data from which said entrapment-risk parameter is estimated comprises at least one of a vehicle speed parameter indicative of a speed of the vehicle, a time derivative of the vehicle speed parameter, an impact direction parameter indicative of a direction of impact, an impact number parameter indicative of a number of impacts, a vehicle type parameter indicative of a type of the vehicle, a rollover parameter indicative of a rollover of the vehicle or an occupant parameter indicative of a place occupation within the vehicle.

23. The system according to claim 21, wherein said entrapment-risk parameter indicates a likelihood that at least one predetermined rescue tool to extricate at least one occupant from the vehicle.

24. The system according to claim 21, further comprising means for estimating said entrapment-risk parameter based on a predetermined relation between said vehicle data and said entrapment-risk parameter.

25. The system according to claim 24, wherein said relation is predetermined based on a database of past crash events comprising entrapment-related extrication actions and vehicle data of different past crash events.

26. The system according to claim 25, wherein said vehicle data are obtained in the event of a crash of the vehicle.