Vehicle occupant emergency system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9522598-B2
Application number	US-201514688452-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 16, 2015
Priority date	Apr 16, 2015
Publication date	Dec 20, 2016
Grant date	Dec 20, 2016

Abstract

A system may include a user interface, a transmitter, a processor, and a memory having a program communicatively connected to the processor. The processor may be configured to receive a body sensor output associated with an occupant of a vehicle, receive a vehicle sensor output associated with the vehicle, compare the body and vehicle sensor outputs with a threshold, prompt for a confirmation associated with at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs, determine an issue type based on at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs, and send a notification including the issue type.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a user interface;
a processor and a memory having a program communicatively connected to the processor, the processor being configured to:
receive a body sensor output associated with an occupant of a vehicle;
receive a vehicle sensor output associated with the vehicle;
compare, using the processor, at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs with a threshold;
prompt, using the user interface, for a confirmation associated with at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs;
determine, using the processor, an issue type based on at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs;
send a notification including the issue type;
receive a facility list having a medical capability and a facility location for a plurality of facilities;
select, using the processor, one of the plurality of facilities from the facility list based in part on a comparison between the medical issue and the medical capability of at least a portion of the plurality of facilities; and
determine, using the processor, a route to the selected one of the plurality of facility.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the issue type includes a medical issue associated with the occupant.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the issue type further includes a vehicle issue associated with the vehicle.

4. The system of claim 1 , the processor further being configured to instruct a vehicle computer of the vehicle to change from a current driving mode to an autonomous driving mode.

5. The system of claim 1 , the processor further being configured to instruct a vehicle computer of the vehicle to drive the vehicle to the selected facility based on the determined route.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the notification includes the issue type and is sent to at least one of a facility and an emergency vehicle.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium tangibly embodying computer-executable instructions of a program being executable by a processor of a computing device to provide operations comprising:
receive a body sensor output associated with an occupant of a vehicle;
receive a vehicle sensor output associated with the vehicle;
compare, using the processor, the body and vehicle sensor outputs with a threshold;
prompt, using the user interface, for a confirmation associated with the body and vehicle sensor outputs;
determine, using the processor, an issue type based on the body and vehicle sensor outputs;
send a notification including the issue type;
receive a facility list having a medical capability and a facility location for a plurality of facilities;
select one of the plurality of facilities from the facility list based in part on a comparison between the medical issue and the medical capability of at least a portion of the plurality of facilities; and
determine a route to the selected one of the plurality of facilities.

8. The medium of claim 7 , wherein the issue type includes a medical issue associated with the occupant.

9. The medium of claim 8 , wherein the issue type further includes a vehicle issue associated with the vehicle.

10. The medium of claim 7 , the operations further comprising instruct a vehicle computer of the vehicle to change from a current driving mode to an autonomous driving mode.

11. The medium of claim 7 , the operations further comprising instruct a vehicle computer of the vehicle to drive the vehicle to the selected facility based on the determined route.

12. The medium of claim 7 , wherein the notification includes the issue type and is sent to at least one of a facility and an emergency vehicle.

13. A method comprising:
receiving a body sensor output associated with an occupant of a vehicle;
receiving a vehicle sensor output associated with the vehicle;
comparing, by way of a processor, at least one of the vehicle and body sensor outputs with a threshold;
prompting, by way of a user interface, for a confirmation associated with the at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs;
determining, by way of the processor, an issue type based on at least one of the body and vehicle sensor outputs;
sending a notification including the issue type;
receiving a facility list having a medical capability and a facility location for a plurality of facilities;
selecting, using a processor, one of the plurality of facilities from the facility list based in part on a comparison between the medical issue and the medical capability of at least a portion of the plurality of facilities; and
determining, without human intervention, a route to the selected one of the plurality of facilities.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the issue type includes a medical issue associated with the occupant.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the issue type further includes a vehicle issue associated with the vehicle.

16. The method of claim 13 , the method further comprising instructing the vehicle to change from a current driving mode to an autonomous driving mode.

17. The method of claim 13 , the method further comprising instructing a vehicle computer of the vehicle to drive the vehicle to the selected facility based on the determined route.

Assignees

• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Akula Sneha

Classifications

• A61B5/7282

  Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition (cough events A61B5/0823; seizures A61B5/4094; sleep apnoea A61B5/4818) · CPC title

• A61B5/6893

  Cars · CPC title

• A61B5/486

  Biofeedback (using electroencephalography [EEG] A61B5/375) · CPC title

• A61B5/747

  in case of emergency, i.e. alerting emergency services · CPC title

• B60K2350/1004

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic