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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
May. 28, 2019
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Mohammad Saad, San Mateo, CA (US);
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system for locating a mobile phone in a vehicle is provided. The system includes one or more processors and a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and storing a detection module and a safety module. The detection module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to: determine that a mobile phone is located in a vehicle. The safety module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to: in response to the determination, play a sound in the vehicle; record the sound played in the vehicle; based on the recorded sound and a sound model, determine if the mobile phone is in a driver seat of the vehicle; and if it is determined that the mobile phone is in the driver seat of the vehicle, disable at least some functionality of the mobile phone.