System, method and recording medium for determining a remediation action

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10219750-B2
Application number	US-201615282456-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2016
Priority date	Sep 30, 2016
Publication date	Mar 5, 2019
Grant date	Mar 5, 2019

Abstract

A method of determining a remediation action includes detecting an acoustic event in a vehicle, detecting an environmental condition in the vehicle, detecting a respiratory disease symptom of a passenger in the vehicle based on the detected acoustic event, correlating the detected respiratory disease symptom with the environmental condition in the vehicle, and determining a remediation action for the detected respiratory disease symptom.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method of determining a remediation action, the method comprising:
detecting an acoustic event in a vehicle;
detecting an environmental condition in the vehicle;
detecting a respiratory disease symptom of a passenger in the vehicle based on the detected acoustic event;
correlating the detected respiratory disease symptom with the detected environmental condition in the vehicle; and
determining a remediation action for the detected respiratory disease symptom.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the detecting of the environmental condition is performed in response to the acoustic event detector detecting the acoustic event.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the detecting of the acoustic event is performed by an acoustic event detector comprising an audio sensor.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the detecting of the environmental condition comprises detecting in the vehicle an amount of particulate matter (PM), an amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a humidity and a temperature.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the detecting of the environmental condition is performed by an environmental condition detector comprising one of a PM sensor, a VOC sensor, a humidity sensor and a temperature sensor.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the acoustic event comprises at least one of the passenger coughing, the passenger sneezing, the passenger wheezing, the passenger sniffing and the passenger clearing his throat, the passenger using a nasally voice, the passenger taking shallow breaths, and the passenger taking deep breaths.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
tracking an effect of the remediation action on acoustic events detected.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
refining a remediation action determination based on the tracking of the effect of the remediation action.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
managing an air quality in the vehicle based on the determined remediation action.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the managing of the air quality comprises managing the air quality in the vehicle by at least one of adjusting an amount of particulate matter (PM) in air in the vehicle, adjusting an amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air, adjusting a humidity in the air, and adjusting a temperature of the air.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the managing of the air quality is performed by an air quality manager which is formed in a heating and cooling system of the vehicle.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
storing a passenger profile which relates the determined remediation action with passenger information of the passenger,
wherein the managing of the air quality comprises managing the air quality in the vehicle based on the passenger profile.

13. A system for determining a remediation action, the system comprising:
an acoustic event detector for detecting an acoustic event in a vehicle;
an environmental condition detector for detecting an environmental condition; and
a remediation action determining device for:
detecting a respiratory disease symptom of a passenger in the vehicle based on a detected acoustic event;
correlating a detected respiratory disease symptom with the detected environmental condition in the vehicle; and
determining a remediation action for the detected respiratory disease symptom.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the environmental condition detector detects the environmental condition in response to the acoustic event detector detecting the acoustic event.

15. The system of claim 13 , wherein the acoustic event detector comprises an audio sensor.

16. The system of claim 13 , wherein the environmental condition comprises an amount of particulate matter (PM), an amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a humidity and a temperature.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the environmental condition detector comprises one of a PM sensor, a VOC sensor, a humidity sensor and a temperature sensor.

18. The system of claim 13 , wherein the remediation action determining device:
recommends the determined remediation action to the passenger;
tracks an effect of the remediation action based on the detected acoustic event; and
refines a remediation action determination based on the tracking of the effect of the remediation action.

19. The system of claim 13 , further comprising:
an air quality manager for managing an air quality in the vehicle based on the recommended remediation action.

20. A computer program product for determining a remediation action, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause a method of, the computer to:
detect an acoustic event in a vehicle;
detect an environmental condition in the vehicle;
detect a respiratory disease symptom of a passenger in the vehicle based on a detected acoustic event;
correlate the detected respiratory disease symptom with the detected environmental condition in the vehicle; and
determine a remediation action for the detected respiratory disease symptom.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Duan Ning
• Gao Peng
• Huang He Yuan
• Huang Jingchang

Classifications

• B60H3/02

  Moistening {; Humidity control} · CPC title

• B60H1/008

  the input being air quality · CPC title

• B60H1/00742

  by detection of the vehicle occupants' presence; by detection of conditions relating to the body of occupants, e.g. using radiant heat detectors · CPC title

• A61B2562/0271

  Thermal or temperature sensors · CPC title

• A61B2562/0204

  Acoustic sensors · CPC title