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

Claim 8:
9. A computing system for generating an indication of whether a vehicle crash has occurred, the computing system comprising:
a first mobile computing device within a vehicle, the first mobile computing device configured to:
output base sensor data by an accelerometer of the first mobile computing device;
determine that the base sensor data output by the accelerometer indicates that a condition corresponding to a crash of the vehicle has occurred, wherein the crash has an expected duration;
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 first mobile computing device to stop receiving additional sensor data, wherein the end time is 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 first 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 first mobile computing device is separate from the accelerometer of the first 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.