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Vehicle driver identification

  • US 9,725,098 B2
  • Filed: 07/15/2015
  • Issued: 08/08/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system, comprising a computer including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the computer to:

  • detect a user gesture and a second user gesture based on received data from one or more motion sensors;

    identify user gesture attributes for the user gesture and the second user gesture including at least one of hand vectoring, wrist articulation, and finger articulation from the gesture including respective movements of each of a plurality of a user'"'"'s fingers;

    wherein the gesture attributes further include at least one of motion at gesture initiation and motion at gesture termination;

    based on the identified gesture attributes, identify a user and a second user and actions to be performed in a vehicle;

    determine whether one of the user and the second user is a driver and the other of the user and the second user is a passenger; and

    upon determining that the driver and the passenger performed their respective gestures at the same time, perform the action in the vehicle to control at least one vehicle component according to the gesture of the driver and ignore the gesture of the passenger.

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