18497417. OCCUPANT MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE (GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC)

OCCUPANT MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE

Organization Name

GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC

Inventor(s)

Akilesh Rajavenkatanarayanan of Macomb MI US

Joseph F. Szczerba of Grand Blanc MI US

Manoj Kumar Sharma of Troy MI US

Maureen Elizabeth August of Gross Pointe Woods MI US

OCCUPANT MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18497417 titled 'OCCUPANT MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE

Original Abstract Submitted

An occupant monitoring system for monitoring one or more occupants located in a seat of a vehicle includes one or more cameras positioned to capture image data representative of an occupant, one or more biometric sensors that each monitor a parameter indicative of a physiological measure of the occupant, and one or more controllers. The one or more controllers execute instructions to determine one or more physiological measures of the occupant based on the image data collected by the one or more cameras and one or more parameters indicative of the one or more physiological measures of each occupant collected by the one or more biometric sensors, and in response to determining the physiological measure exceeds either the major event threshold value or the minor event threshold value, generate a notification directed to a driver of the vehicle.