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Responding to in-vehicle environmental conditions

  • US 9,955,326 B2
  • Filed: 10/25/2013
  • Issued: 04/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An in-vehicle warning system to generate a warning based on environmental conditions sensed in a vehicle, the in-vehicle warning system comprising:

  • a vehicle monitoring module to;

    (i) determine whether an operator of the vehicle is present, (ii) determine whether a non-operator occupant is present in the vehicle, and (iii) determine whether environmental conditions sensed within the vehicle satisfy a reference condition threshold;

    an emergency action module to transmit an alert notification message to a mobile computing device of the operator in response to;

    (i) a determination that the environmental conditions sensed within the vehicle satisfy the reference condition threshold, (ii) a determination that the operator of the vehicle is not present, and (iii) a determination that the non-operator occupant is present in the vehicle, wherein the alert notification message comprises an image captured by a camera positioned inside of the vehicle or a video captured by the camera positioned inside of the vehicle; and

    a system override controllable by the operator to prevent transmission of the alert notification message when activated, wherein the emergency action module is to transmit the alert notification message regardless of the activation of the system override in response to a determination that at least one environmental condition sensed within the vehicle is greater than an upper threshold.

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