Patent ID: 11861917
Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 7:
8. A computer-implemented method for detecting vehicle occupant actions, the method comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors, previously classified image data from a previously classified image database, the previously classified image data representing driver postures that are rotated and scaled to be standardized for a range of different drivers and different locations of a vehicle interior sensor within a vehicle, wherein the previously classified image data is representative of previously classified vehicle occupant actions;
receiving, by the one or more processors, current image data from the vehicle interior sensor subsequent to the vehicle interior sensor being registered within the vehicle, wherein the current image data is representative of current vehicle occupant actions; and
determining, by the one or more processors, a vehicle occupant action based at least in part upon a comparison of the current image data and the previously classified image data.