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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2023
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Atousa Torabi, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Sakthivel Sivaraman, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Niranjan Avadhanam, Saratoga, CA (US);

Shagan Sah, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 21/017 (2006.01); B60R 21/013 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06N 3/02 (2006.01); B60R 21/01 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 21/017 (2013.01); B60R 21/013 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/005 (2020.02); G06N 3/02 (2013.01); B60R 2021/01211 (2013.01); B60R 2021/01286 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0062 (2013.01);
Abstract

In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed that accurately identify driver and passenger in-cabin activities that may indicate a biomechanical distraction that prevents a driver from being fully engaged in driving a vehicle. In particular, image data representative of an image of an occupant of a vehicle may be applied to one or more deep neural networks (DNNs). Using the DNNs, data indicative of key point locations corresponding to the occupant may be computed, a shape and/or a volume corresponding to the occupant may be reconstructed, a position and size of the occupant may be estimated, hand gesture activities may be classified, and/or body postures or poses may be classified. These determinations may be used to determine operations or settings for the vehicle to increase not only the safety of the occupants, but also of surrounding motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians.


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