System and method for dynamic vehicular threat detection perimeter modification for an exited vehicular occupant

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10867494-B2
Application number	US-201916668150-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2019
Priority date	Mar 1, 2019
Publication date	Dec 15, 2020
Grant date	Dec 15, 2020

Abstract

A process for dynamic vehicular threat detection perimeter modification for an exited vehicular occupant includes prior to detecting a vehicular occupant exiting the vehicle, establishing a first sized vehicular geofence surrounding the vehicle as a function of one or more stored vehicular perimeter distances. The first sized vehicular geofence is monitored for a first breach via one of a 360 degree vehicular light imaging and radio wave distancing system. In response to detecting that the vehicular occupant previously inside the vehicle has exited the vehicle, the one or more stored vehicular perimeter distances is modified as a function of a detected location of the exited vehicular occupant to establish a second sized vehicular geofence surrounding the vehicle different than the first sized vehicular geofence. The second sized vehicular geofence is monitored for a second breach via one of the 360 degree vehicular light imaging and radio wave distancing system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic processing system for dynamic vehicular threat detection perimeter modification for an exited vehicular occupant, the system comprising:
a memory;
a transceiver;
one of a vehicular light imaging and a radio wave distancing system physically coupled to a vehicle; and
one or more processors configured to:
detect, via the one of the vehicular light imaging and radio wave distancing system or via another sensor physically coupled to an interior or exterior of the vehicle or to a vehicular occupant, that the vehicular occupant previously inside the vehicle has exited the vehicle;
responsive to detecting that the vehicular occupant previously inside the vehicle has exited the vehicle, modify at least one of one or more stored vehicular perimeter distances to establish a sized vehicular geofence surrounding the vehicle as a function of the modified one or more stored vehicular perimeter distances; and
monitor, via the one of the vehicular light imaging and radio wave distancing system while the vehicular occupant remains exited from the vehicle, for a breach of the sized vehicular geofence.

2. The electronic processing system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processor are further configured to:
detect, via the one of the vehicular light imaging and radio wave distancing system, the breach of the sized vehicular geofence;
identify one or more target electronic devices to notify of the detected breach including at least one of (i) a target electronic device associated with the exited vehicular occupant, (ii) a target electronic device associated with a second vehicular occupant still in the vehicle, and (iii) an audio and/or visual output target electronic device fixed to an exterior or interior of the vehicle; and
responsive to detecting the breach, cause a notice of breach message to be provided, via the transceiver, to the identified one or more target electronic devices.

3. The electronic processing system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to identify the one or more target electronic devices to notify of the breach including at least one of (i) the target electronic device associated with the exited vehicular occupant, (ii) the target electronic device associated with the second vehicular occupant still in the vehicle, and (iii) the audio and/or visual output target electronic device fixed to the exterior or interior of the vehicle by identifying the target electronic device associated with the exited vehicular occupant.

4. The electronic processing system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to identify the one or more target electronic devices to notify of the breach including at least one of (i) the target electronic device associated with the exited vehicular occupant, (ii) the target electronic device associated with the second vehicular occupant still in the vehicle, and (iii) the audio and/or visual output target electronic device fixed to the exterior or interior of the vehicle by identifying the audio and/or visual output target electronic device fixed to the exterior or interior of the vehicle.

5. The electronic processing system of claim 4 , wherein the audio and/or visual output target electronic device is one of a vehicle siren and a vehicle light bar, and wherein the notice of breach message is an instruction to one of activate the vehicle siren and activate at least a portion of the vehicle light bar.

6. The electronic processing system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to detect, via the one of the vehicular light imaging and radio wave distancing system physically coupled to the vehicle and communicably coupled to the vehicular computing device, the breach of the sized vehicular geofence by detecting, via the vehicular light imaging distancing system physically coupled to the vehicle and communicably coupled to the vehicular computing device, the breach of the sized vehicular geofence; and
wherein the vehicular light imaging distancing system includes a visible light imaging device that is further configured to, responsive to detecting the breach of the sized vehicular geofence, capture an image of a person or object detected as breaching the sized vehicular geofence and provide, via the one or more processors and accompanying the notice of breach message or subsequent to the notice of breach message, the captured image to the identified one or more target electronic devices.

7. The electronic processing system of claim 1 , wherein the radio wave distancing system is a radio direction and distance (RADAR) distancing system.

8. The electronic processing system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more stored vehicular perimeter distances used to establish the sized vehicular geofence are further varied as a function of one or more retrieved vehicular perimeter contextual parameters including one or more of an incident type associated with a vehicle destination location, a historical crime rate associated with the vehicle destination location, and a real-time crime rate associated with the vehicle destination location.

9. The electronic processing system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
detect, via the one of the vehicular light imaging and radio wave distancing system or via another sensor physically coupled to the interior or exterior of the vehicle, that the exited vehicular occupant previously outside the vehicle has returned to inside the vehicle;
modify the at least one of the one or more stored vehicular perimeter distances to establish a second sized vehicular geofence surrounding the vehicle smaller than the sized vehicular geofence; and
monitor, via the one of the vehicular light imaging and radio wave distancing system, for a second breach of the second sized vehicular geofence.

10. The electronic processing system of claim 1 , wherein the sized vehicular geofence is defined by first, second, third, and fourth stored vehicular perimeter distances establishing a geometric geofence surrounding the vehicle, and wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
determine an updated location or direction vector associated with the exited vehicular occupant; and
responsive to detecting that the vehicular occupant previously inside the vehicle has exited the vehicle, modify only one or two of the first, second, third, and fourth stored vehicular perimeter distances to increase a value of the only one or two of the first, second, third, and fourth stored vehicular perimeter distances so as to expand a size of the geometric geofence surrounding the vehicle in a direction of the determined updated location or direction vector associated with the exited vehicular occupant to create the sized vehicular geofence having a geometric or non-geometric shape.

11. The electronic processing system of claim 10 ,
wherein the one of the vehicular light imaging and radio wave distancing system is formed of four distinct substantially 90 degree vehicular light imaging and radio wave distancing imagers, a first of the four distinct distancing imagers directed to image past a front of the vehicle, a second of the four distinct distancing imagers directed to image past a rear of the vehicle, a third of the four distinct distancing imagers directed to image past a first respective side of the vehicle, and the fourth of the four distinct distancing imagers directed to image past a second respective side of the vehicle opposite the first respective side; and
wherein the first stored vehicular perimeter distance is associated with the first of the four distinct distancing imagers, the second stored vehic

Assignees

• Motorola Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Koskan Patrick D
• Alazraki Scott M

Classifications

• G08B5/36

  using visible light sources · CPC title

• H04W4/40

  for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] · CPC title

• G08B13/19647 Primary

  Systems specially adapted for intrusion detection in or around a vehicle · CPC title

• H04W4/022

  with dynamic range variability · CPC title

• H04W4/10

  Push-to-Talk [PTT] or Push-On-Call services · CPC title