Patent ID: 11967219
Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 9:
10. A system for notifying an owner of a lost item in a vehicle during a trip, the vehicle having a vehicle compartment, the system comprising:
at least one sensor disposed in the vehicle compartment and arranged to sense the lost item on a point relative to a spherical coordinate system to define a sensed item data;
an electronic control unit (ECU) disposed in the vehicle and in communication with the at least one sensor, the ECU arranged to determine, at an end of the trip when an occupant of the vehicle has left the vehicle, a position of the lost item in cartesian coordinates based on the sensed item data to define a position data, the ECU arranged to translate the sensed item data and the position data for visualization of the lost item to define an item image of the lost item relative to the vehicle compartment, the ECU arranged to update an inventory list of lost objects to include the lost item with the item image, the ECU arranged to tag the lost item in the inventory list with a trip identifier that is unique to the trip, the ECU arranged to match the trip identifier with a user identifier that is unique to the last occupant of the vehicle during the trip associated with the trip identifier, and the ECU arranged to identify the owner of the lost item by matching the trip identifier with the user identifier; and
a cloud server disposed remotely from the vehicle and in communication with the ECU, the cloud server arranged to provide notification to the owner of the lost item, the cloud server arranged to provide viewable access of the item image such that the image is viewed by the owner of the lost item.