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Patent No.:

US 12579841 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026

Filed:

Jul. 13, 2023

Systems and methods for autonomous horn activation and kidnapping detection

Applicant:

Torc Robotics, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);

Inventors:

Christopher Harrison, Blacksburg, VA (US);

Andrew Culhane, Blacksburg, VA (US);

Assignee:

TORC Robotics, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);

Attorney:

Armstrong Teasdale LLP

Primary Examiner:

Pinalben Patel

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 40/20 (2022.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06V 10/40 (2022.01); G06V 10/70 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G08B 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 40/20 (2022.01); G06V 10/40 (2022.01); G06V 10/70 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G08B 21/02 (2013.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.02); G06V 2201/08 (2022.01);
Abstract

An autonomous vehicle can include a horn; a sensor(s) configured to capture images; and one or more processors. The one or more processors can be configured to receive a sequence of images from the sensor(s), the sequence of images captured by the sensor(s) as the autonomous vehicle was moving; execute a machine learning model using the sequence of images as input to detect a human inside a second vehicle or in the surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle depicted within the sequence of images; determine, based on the detection of the human inside the second vehicle or in the surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle within the sequence of images, the human is depicted performing a defined arm gesture within the sequence of images; and activate the horn responsive to the determination that the human is depicted performing the defined arm gesture within the sequence of images.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Harrison, Christopher. (2026). Systems and methods for autonomous horn activation and kidnapping detection (U.S. Patent No. 12579841). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12579841

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