Patent ID: 11861715
Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H  B | IPC B  G  H

Claim 13:
14. A computer readable storage medium comprising non-transitory computer readable instructions stored thereon for generating an indication of whether a vehicle crash has occurred, wherein the instructions when executed on one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
output base sensor data by an accelerometer of a mobile computing device;
determine that the base sensor data output by the accelerometer indicates that a condition corresponding to a crash of a vehicle has occurred, wherein the crash has an expected duration, the mobile computing device being within the vehicle;
after determining that the base sensor data indicates that the condition corresponding to the crash of the vehicle has occurred, determine an amount of time corresponding to the expected duration of the crash; and
after determining the amount of time corresponding to the expected duration of the crash:
determine an end time for the one or more processors to stop receiving additional sensor data, wherein the end time is a current time plus the amount of time corresponding to the expected duration of the crash,
in response to determining that the base sensor data output by the accelerometer indicates that the condition corresponding to the crash of the vehicle has occurred, cause a gyroscope of the mobile computing device to operate and begin outputting the additional sensor data, wherein the gyroscope outputs the additional sensor data until the end time, and wherein the gyroscope of the mobile computing device is separate from the accelerometer of the mobile computing device, and
generate, based on the additional sensor data output by the gyroscope, an indication of whether the crash of the vehicle has occurred.