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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2024
GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Siddhartha Gupta, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Sean Taylor Coughlin, Shelby Township, MI (US);
Maria Del Mar Davila, Clawson, MI (US);
GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
An example vehicle interior camera system includes memory configured to store at least one Gaussian process image segmentation model, a vehicle interior camera, and a vehicle control module configured to obtain an image of the interior of the vehicle, extract one or more image crops of a region surrounding a target object in the image, detect and segment a passenger mask in the image, supply the image to the at least one Gaussian process image segmentation model to obtain a region mask associated with the region surrounding the target object, remove the passenger mask from the region mask to extract a target object mask, identify a target object condition according to the target object mask, and control at least one vehicle system or feature in response to identification of the target object condition.