Systems and methods for providing awareness of emergency vehicles

US10818113B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · US

Inventors

• John A. Nepomuceno · Bloomington, US
• Leo Nelson Chan · Normal, US
• Steven C. Cielocha · Bloomington, US
• Roxane Lyons · Chenoa, US
• Matthew S. Megyese · Bloomington, US
• William J. Leise · Normal, US
• Jennifer Criswell Kellett · Lincoln, US
• Kristopher Keith Gaudin · Bloomington, US
• Jennifer L. Crawford · Normal, US
• Jeremy Myers · Normal, US
• Edward P. Matesevac, III · Normal, US
• Rajiv C. Shah · Bloomington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 28, 2019
• Grant date: Oct 27, 2020
• Expiry date: Oct 28, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S2013/93274
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing awareness of emergency vehicles are provided. Sensors located around a vehicle may detect moving objects that pose potentially dangerous situations for the vehicle occupants and for the object. This can cause the doors to lock automatically in order to make the situation safer. Additionally, electromagnetic radiation sensors located around the vehicle may detect the lights and sounds of emergency vehicles. If the electromagnetic data from the electromagnetic radiation sensors match a known pattern of electromagnetic data emitted by emergency vehicles stored in a library an alarm may be sounded through the speakers of the vehicle in order to alert the vehicle occupants of an emergency vehicle in the vicinity.