Impairment recognition mechanism

• US 9,630,589 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2015
• Issued: 04/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Poisner, David I., Krimon, Yuri
• Primary Examiner(s): NWUGO, OJIAKO K
• Application Number:
  US14/669,826
• Publication Number:
  US 20160280181A1
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 3405731, 340576
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/798 for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for generating a hall of fame computing the game score A63F13/46
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/803 Driving vehicles or craft, e.g. cars, airplanes, ships, robots or tanks
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/516 connected to a local network, e.g. in a plane, hotel
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 9/00 Arrangement or adaptation of signal devices not provided for in one of main groups B60Q1/00 - B60Q7/00 , e.g. haptic signalling
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/00 Fittings or systems for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles locks for vehicles E05B77/00-E05B85/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2040/0818 Inactivity or incapacity of driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/12 Limiting control by the driver depending on vehicle state, e.g. interlocking means for the control input for preventing unsafe operation

Abstract

A method is described including receiving sensory data, determining an indication of initial user impairment based on the sensory data, providing one or more games to the user to determine a level of user impairment, calculating a game score based on user responses to the one or more games and providing an indication of impairment upon a determination that the game score indicates user impairment.

Claims

1. An apparatus to impairment recognition, comprising:

a sensor array to acquire sensory data;

a passive detect system to receive the sensory data and determine an indication of user impairment; and

stimulus response logic to receive the indication of user impairment, perform one or more games, determine a level of user impairment based on the user response to the one or more games and compute a game score that is analyzed to determine user impairment based on the user response, wherein user impairment is determined based on a decrease of the game score at a specific rate.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a system to provide stimuli to the user during performance of the one or more games.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the system comprises an infotainment system is coupled to receive the stimuli from input/output (I/O) devices.

4. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the stimulus response logic measures the user response to stimuli provided by the system.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein user impairment is further determined whenever the game score falls below a pre-determined threshold.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein user impairment is further determined based on a decrease of the game score at a specific rate.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein user impairment is further determined based on atypical deviation between game scores from the one or more games.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a safety system to receive an impairment indication upon a determination of impairment at the stimulus response logic.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the passive detect system receives user images as sensory data.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the passive detect system further receives movement data as sensory data.

11. An impairment recognition method comprising:

receiving sensory data;

determining an indication of initial user impairment based on the sensory data, providing one or more games to the user to determine a level of user impairment;

calculating a game score based on user responses to the one or more games; and

providing an indication of impairment upon a determination that the game score indicates user impairment, wherein user impairment is determined based on a decrease of the game score at a specific rate.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein user impairment is determined whenever the game score falls below a pre-determined threshold.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein user impairment is further determined based on atypical deviation between game scores from the one or more games.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein the sensory data comprises user images.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the sensory data further comprises movement data.

16. At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to carry out operations comprising:

receiving sensory data;

determining an indication of initial user impairment based on the sensory data;

providing one or more games to the user to determine a level of user impairment;

calculating a game score based on user responses to the one or more games; and

providing an indication of impairment upon a determination that the game score indicates user impairment, wherein user impairment is determined based on a decrease of the game score at a specific rate.

17. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein user impairment is determined whenever the game score falls below a pre-determined threshold.

18. The at least one machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein user impairment is determined based on atypical deviation between game scores from the one or more games.

19. An automobile comprising:

a sensor array to acquire sensory data;

an impairment recognition system including;

a passive detect system to receive the sensory data and determine an indication of user impairment; and

stimulus response logic to receive the indication of user impairment, perform one or more games, determine a level of user impairment based on the user response to the one or more games and compute a game score that is analyzed to determine user impairment based on the user response, wherein user impairment is determined based on a decrease of the game score at a specific rate.

20. The automobile of claim 19 further comprising an infotainment system coupled to the impairment recognition system to provide stimuli to the user during performance of the one or more games.

21. The automobile of claim 20 further comprising a safety system to receive an impairment indication upon a determination of impairment at the stimulus response logic.