Identifying A Driver Of A Vehicle

Patent №

US 9,707,911

Granted

2017-07-18

Filed 2016

Owner

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

Lab

AI components

4

ml · vision · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15076360

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying a person as a driver of a vehicle. Aspects include using in-vehicle sensors to increase the accuracy of driver identification initially determined using other mechanisms. As such, at least two different types of sensory devices can be utilized to gather data in an effort to identify the driver. The data gathered from the first sensor (e.g., at a key fob) is processed to identify the driver based on learned characteristic patterns, such as the driver's gait, before the driver enters the vehicle. The data gathered from the second sensor (e.g., in an in-vehicle face or voice recognition system) is processed to confirm the driver. The confirmation is based on biometric data and learned characteristic patterns. Data from the second sensor is provided back to the first sensor to confirm the driver identity.

Machine learningVisionPlanningAI hardwareB60R 16/037H04L 43/16H04W 4/48H04W 4/70

AI classification

Vision1.00
AI hardware1.00
Machine learning1.00
Planning0.97
Knowledge representation0.48
Speech0.11
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

assignment · 380550346

Assignors

MYERS, SCOTT VINCENT, ELWART, SHANE, TALAMONTI, WALTER JOSEPH, MULLEN, JONATHAN THOMAS, NELSON, ZACHARY DAVID, SMITH, TORY, HALDER, BIBHRAJIT, HAN, KYU JEONG

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